My Mother, Cari, was brutally attacked 20 years ago in Bakersfield. The case was never solved. She was taken from one of the local bars,  beaten and raped in a field off of Golden State Highway. They slit her throat and left her for dead.  That cold November morning she was found by a  GET bus mechanic.  I was a freshman at Centennial High- I remember it was 5th period when the detectives had finally tracked me down as a possible relative.  The image of her face when I finally got to confirm that it was her, it is indescribable. The road rash, her head was so swollen. She was in a coma at Kern Medical Center and then transferred to Delano Regional after a few weeks. 

Cari lives in some pretty horrible conditions  because of what happened to her. She has a brain injury that has taken her memories; and also her taste and smell.  It also makes her very nervous and anxiety ridden.  She has three small dogs that are her life and lives on very limited resources and income.  I have been helping financially as much as I can with a family of my own to take care of, and now I am asking for help to help her. 

She needs funds to keep her fed and her dogs fed. She needs help paying for someone to help clean her place- her lack of sense of smell makes it very dangerous to use cleaning supplies- she has already been hospitalized once because of an accident with using raid and she is so buried she doesn’t know where or how to start.  She needs pest control services after a very thorough extermination- the roaches and mice are unbearable. 

These funds will be used for her basic human needs that living on social security isn’t affording  her.