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Audience a picture of josie before the attack. here's what she looked like after the attack. we warn you that this might be difficult to see. there's josie as josie. there's josie after the attack. hilda, can you figure out, in all of your imagination, what prompted someone to do this to your daughter? >> no, i can't. i can't picture anybody want to harm josie, because josie is a loving child. she's very, very caring, very caring. she's a generous girl. she gets along with everybody. i don't know why anybody would want to hurt her. >> larry: have you seen the text messages that were sent to he...

Basically prohibit it until they're turned over to the defense attorneys. >> larry: is she going to recover fully, rick? >> well, the doctors are basically right now talking about it's a 24 hour by 24 hour thing. every single day, we hope that something positive happens and eventually, they will take her out of the induced coma and then hopefully, she wakes up and hopefully her smile will be there like the picture shows, but the truth of the matter is, we just don't know. >> larry: considering the text messages, the broward county sheriff talked about some of those messages that the suspect al...

>> they have three in custody at this time. >> larry: they spilled alcohol on your boy and set fire to him? >> yes, sir. >> larry: and you pray for them? >> yes. >> larry: rick, what is going on at that school? >> the sheriff talked about it last week. and he said that, you know, we can't keep locking up every single juvenile and throw away the key. we've got to do something before it happens, and he said, what can we do about it? it was kind of a howard beal moment, i'm as mad as hell and i don't want to take it anymore. now, we're talking about what you do do about it. you look at josie and ...

Josie's mother, rick freeman, josie's attorney, and valerie brewer. let's check with hilda. how is josie doing? >> she's pretty much the same, i would say. she's got a little cough going. we don't know if that's coming actually from her. she has her -- a couple times her legs may shiver, so those are the only things. >> she's still in induced coma, larry. she has been so for seven days ever since the incident. the doctors aren't going to take her out of the induced coma until the swelling on her brain goes down. >> larry: the accused is a 15-year-old boy. is that who is accused of this? >> tha...

I pray for them everyday. as long as -- with their mothers and their father, their families, i pray for all of them. my son and anybody that's involved with this. >> larry: how many boys were involved? >> they have three in custody at this time. >> larry: they spilled alcohol on your boy and set fire to him? >> yes, sir. >> larry: and you pray for them? >> yes. >> larry: rick, what is going on at that school? >> the sheriff talked about it last week. and he said that, you know, we can't keep locking up every single juvenile and throw away the key. we've got to do something before it happens, a...