She’s bravely struggling to walk and talk again — but still won’t speak a word about the madman with the knife.
“It is too soon right now,” the great aunt of Mikayla Capers, 7, said Saturday, between visits to the Brooklyn girl’s bed at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “She has not talked about what happened,” said aunt Brigitte Capers, 45.
It has been a week since Mikayla was stabbed 16 times in her East New York elevator in an attack that claimed the life of her playmate, Prince Joshua “PJ” Avitto, 6.
Violent parolee Daniel St. Hubert remains jailed in Bellevue Hospital’s psych ward after being charged in the senseless attacks.
Mikayla has started physical therapy and no longer needs life support, said Capers, who is raising the girl.
“I hope that monster didn’t take her innocence,” the great aunt said.
The family hopes to move to an apartment away from the Boulevard Houses project where the girl and her pal were attacked as they were taking the elevator to get ice cream.
“She had been asking me, ‘Auntie Mommy, when are we getting a puppy?’ ” Capers said.
“In our new apartment,” the doting aunt added, “she will get a puppy.”