Girl(10) Sues Her Father for causing Road Rage?

Kaitlyn Timko's father was driving her back to her mother's house after a visit with him when another driver shot him in the head during a road-rage dispute in Philadelphia. He slumped over the wheel and the car was bloodied as Kaitlyn sat in the back seat.

Neither the four bullets fired nor the flying glass struck the 9-year-old. But she was barely responsive when a counselor interviewed her that week, and her mother said she remains traumatized two years later.

Now Kaitlyn - through her mother - has sued her dad, charging that he set off a chain of events that led to the gunfire by cutting off the other driver.

Culleton(the Lawyer) represents Lori Hardwerk(the mother), 40, who filed suit on her daughter's behalf this year in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Hardwerk is seeking damages to pay for the intensive counseling she feels the 10-year-old needs to deal with post-traumatic stress.

The shooting left Thomas Timko(the father) with permanent brain injuries, a disfiguring scar and high medical debts. Shooter Christian Squillaciotti, a schizophrenic ex-Marine, is serving a 13- to 26-year prison term after being convicted of two counts of attempted murder and weapons charges.


What a loving family, don't you agree?

I'll disown her right there and now -.-

I don't believe the daughter is pulling the strings here. It seems more like the mom is trying to make the father's life a living hell.

Ha, God Bless America.

Really though, although it paints a picture of a vindictive mother pulling the strings from behind the scenes in order to get some kind of judgment against her husband, we don't really get a clear picture of the situation. It isn't really fair to make a quick judgment that this is a worthless case without more information.

If the father was being entirely reckless, and the events so traumatizing to effectively incapacitate the daughter, then suddenly this court case becomes significantly more justified.

Let's take a page out of the Casey Anthony case and not jump to preliminary conclusions when we have no idea of the situation at hand, shall we?

Was talking about with a friend about this, he says it sounds like a custody issue, and fact that their last names no longer matches. So they're likely divorced, and the mother is capitalizing on the opportunity to get easy money from father and monopolize the daughter.

Dude got shot.. now brain damaged, probably unable to work or even function as a normal man should. I broke my hand when my brother girlfriends father charged at him with a pipe because he pop her cherry... should i sue my brother for that.. not the ass hole swing that shit is responsible. It's more reasonable to sue the asshole who shot the dad then a brain damage fool.

From what i understood from this situation was- the father and mother never married, had kids, still friendly. Father driving daughter to her mothers on free way. here is where it gets tricky.... the daughters/mothers case says that the father cuts a guy(the shooter) off and then proceeds to flick him off through the sun roof. guy gets angry then shoots dad 4 times. the fathers case says the father did nothing, was minding his own business when BAM, shot 4 time in the head. father manages to pull the car safely to the side of the road before going out of it.

the daughter is in the back seat when this all happens. no bullets or shards of glass hit the child. she was untouched, but traumatized. the daughter full of energy, now the complete opposite. this is why i believe why the father is being sued. for "causing" the traumatization.

For the full info on this, here's the site i got it from.

http://autos.aol.com/article/girls-sues-father-road-rage/

Depressing situation all around. What kind of mental problems does the father have now?

Traumatic brain injury is one of the most difficult kinds of severe injuries for the patient and his or her family to deal with. Unlike injuries that can be seen and will heal over time, a brain injury is invisible. The person may look fine and look the same as before, but they are not the same . . . and this is confusing, upsetting and life altering for the brain injury patient and his or her family and friends.

Effects

When the brain is injured, the mental and emotional functioning of the person is affected and so are the personality, memory, language ability, and other less tangible qualities that make each person who they are. The effects of a brain injury are often devastating to the victim's relationships, occupation, income, school performance, and overall quality of life. Even so-called “mild” brain injuries can affect functioning, and create terrible hardships in a variety of ways.

As traumatic as this is for family, friends, co-workers and others, the brain injured person is often frightened and depressed at the changes taking place, the loss of functioning or memory, the inability to control thoughts and emotions, and the disturbing feeling that things are not the same as they were. Head and brain injuries are, indeed, one of the most devastating of traumatic injuries.

on another note, the daughter now allegedly suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder from witnessing these events.

Yes. I meant his specific issues not the broad range he could experience.

Didn't give any specifics, just that it was serious and permanent. I was just trying to give a broad range what "maybe" his symptoms are.

that is some crazy shit...

wow what the hell...

Well you can't blame the mother for being like this, she now has a daughter that has been traumatized within the father's care.

but was it the father's fault? we don't know which party is telling the truth. even so i think it's low of the mother to get back to the father through their daughter. hasn't she been through enough. if the mother really wanted to sue the father, she should have sued him herself.

Actually one may argue that it would be more effective for the daughter to file suit. She was the one that was traumatized, not the mother. It actually looks more conspicuous for the mother to sue on behalf of the daughter (outside of the necessity as guardian.)

Well someone's gotta pay for the therapy she's going to need and the mother can't do it by herself most likely

so in the end the father has to pay for his injuries( which are severe and seriously expensive), court fee's, lawyer fee's, car repairs, and (if he wasn't already) pay for the daughter's treatments. What does the mother pay? I'm assuming nothing. it just doesn't seem fair. i guess life isn't fair.

I've seen this so many times. Mother hates father, something happens to the child while in father's or mother's care and some how mother sues father over it. Didn't some woman sue her ex a few months back for child support after they divorced and she got herself pregnant with the father's sperm left at a sperm bank? Why do the courts even take on bulshit cases like this?

So the dad got shot the daughter is traumatized and the mom is a gold digger that uses the opportunity to sue the crap out of the dad....WTF!