Mother pleads for answers as 18-year-old daughter recovers from hit-and-run crash in SW Miami-Dade
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A Southwest Miami-Dade mother is making an emotional plea for help to find a suspected hit-and-run driver as her daughter fights for her life. The mother, who did not wish to show her face, is seeking answers after her 18-year-old daughter, Steffany Medina, was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash over the weekend. This is something that is killing us. How is it that my daughter ended up appearing there, broken? They left her thrown there like a little animal. She did not deserve this, she said in Spanish. Miami-Dade Sheriff s deputies found the injured teen near the area of Southwest 296th Street and 153rd Court, just after 4 p.m. on Sunday. I ask him what the person is like. So he shows me a little piece of video where the firefighters had already picked her up, so I recognized what was on her, shorts, short, short pants that I myself had given her and she was wearing them. That was when I recognized, I knew it was my daughter who was there, said the mother.