A 2-year-old boy hurt when a car jumped a Brooklyn sidewalk is likely brain-dead — and his mother doesn’t even know, relatives said yesterday.
Wendy McLein, 37, was in a semicoma at Kings County Hospital, according to family members, who said her son, Denim, was brain-dead.
They were injured with 10 others when a car wiped them out at an East Flatbush bus stop Saturday evening.
Cops said the driver passed a breath-alcohol test and would not be charged.
She told investigators that her brakes failed before she plowed through a red light and jumped the sidewalk at Church and Utica avenues at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Little Denim’s aunt, Dierdra McCorkle, 51, wailed and fell to the floor when she got the news about her nephew.
“I’m devastated,” she said yesterday. “Why couldn’t God take me and let him live his life longer?”
McCorkle described Denim as a “bright kid” who learned quickly and loved to eat. She said the mom will be devastated when she learns the news.
“This is going to kill her,” McCorkle said. “Oh, my God.”
Doctors tried to reassure the family that the boy was not suffering.
“This is not a painful thing for him,” one doctor told relatives. “He’s out. He’s not conscious.”
Doctors said the mother was expected to recover, but has a difficult road ahead.
“She’s not completely out of the woods,” a doctor said. “We’re watching her very carefully. We just need to focus our prayers on her.”
McLein’s Facebook page is filled with pictures of her smiling little boy.
She owns a nightclub in Bedford-Stuyvesant — and it’s called Denim’s Cafe