Grace: Dog trained in prison offers solace for girl with disabilities

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/columnists/grace-dog-trained-in-prison-offers-solace-for-girl-with/article_0fdd1aef-ed50-5c6f-be6f-97e38da7dbb5.html




SARAH HOFFMAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Service dog Stormi watches his charge, Delia Binette, 7, at the graduation ceremony of the Domesti-PUPS program at the Lincoln Correctional Center last week. Though Stormi looks ready to snag any dropped bits of cake, she has been trained by inmate Tom McGrath to detect Delia’s seizures and aid her mobility.


POSTED: MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014 12:30 AM
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist

LINCOLN — Tom McGrath can’t change the past. Not the robbery that ended with a murder. Not the life sentence he is now serving. Not the fact that his home for almost 30 years has been a prison.

He can’t do much about the present. And his future behind bars is fairly well set.

But the 49-year-old inmate discovered he had the ability to alter the path for someone else — most recently, a 7-year-old girl from Maine named Delia.

Delia has seizures. Her legs are unsteady. She can’t eat regular food.

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[shenmue]

1. What a story!

Thank you!

[Omaha Steve]

2. Yep

[Blue_Tires]

3. uplifting kick