Parents Tell of Teen Athlete’s Reaction to Loss of Both Legs; Missouri Judge Denies Bond for Crash Suspect

Parents of a 17-year-old Tennessee athlete described to a judge the heartbreaking moment they broke the news to their daughter that she had lost both legs when a speeding vehicle crashed into her.
Janae Edmondson, a volleyball and basketball player, had asked her parents if they would still love her—legless, her mother said at a detention hearing in St. Louis, Missouri.
“‘Of course I will,’ I told her. ‘If I cut all my hair off, would you still love me? This is no different,’” she responded. That’s according to an article posted by KSDK-TV in St. Louis, on Feb. 27….}