Family Celebrates Austin Cash’s Graduation
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The day Austin Cash, 5, walked across the stage to receive his pre-school diploma, for family members, it was a day they never thought would come. “They told me he was not going to live,” said Austin’s mother, April Ramirez. In July of 2007, then 19-month-old Austin was taken to the hospital in critical condition after being severely beaten by his father, Wesley Griffin and his step-mother, Tiffani Callahan. They are currently both in prison for their actions. Austin could not walk or talk and had to be fed through a feeding tube. He has spent the last four years recovering with his great grandparents in Medina. “It is a miracle in itself, the way he was. He has come a long way and we never expected to see him get this far,” said Gina Hamm, Austin’s grandmother. “He is walking, he is saying a few more words than what he was,” Ramirez said. Austin still has a long road of recovery ahead of him. “He got cheated out of a lot of years and a lot of things and now he is coming back and it is just by the grace of God that he is coming back,” Hamm said. Family members believe at the rate Austin is going, he could make a full recovery. “It shows God is working miracles,” said Ramirez. Austin will begin kindergarten in the fall at Medina Elementary.
