And I finally make my way to that kid in the very back.

And I remember getting to him and really seeing that something's seriously wrong here.

I tickle his chin or his forehead, and he looks up at me, and half of his face is paralyzed.

And I said, everything's going to be all right, buddy.

And he smiled at me and went unconscious.

And we get him to this local hospital that's just a small rural hospital. He's still unconscious,

and that's when I get to see his body. And he is covered from head to toe with cuts and bruises,

which we later learned was from an iPhone cord.

He'd been beaten with an iPhone cord.

Anyway, the doctors didn't think he was going to make it at that hospital.

We loaded him in an ambulance and then gave him an escort over to Spokane.

Anyway, they let us back in and we get back to his room and the nurse is crying.

And she says he's not going to make it through the night.

We're all heartbroken.

We're all crying.

So we showed up the next morning.

Everybody's chipper, happy.

And the nurse comes out and it's docked and they're like, hey, he's made a complete

turnaround.

So we go to this meeting and we learn that the detectives in Seattle had hit the house

where this kid had been beaten, and we learned

that he'd been living in a dog kennel.

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