The grandmother of a 2-year-old who was nearly beaten to death last week said that the girl has a long road of recovery ahead.
Deborah Holder said that her granddaughter, Trinity Compani-Holder, remains in critical condition at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, but that the family remains hopeful.
Doctors performed surgery on the girl’s facial bones last week and are keeping her heavily sedated, Holder said. They are monitoring her brain waves, which have been slow, she added.
“It’s going to be a long recovery and we still don’t know if there will be a full recovery,” Holder said.
Kyle Stephen Brian Holder, 32, is accused of beating his daughter on the night of June 28 at the Sunnyside Motel, a residential motel at 12200 N.E. Highway 99.
Trinity and her mother, Barbara Keller, were sleeping in their room when Kyle Holder walked in, grabbed Trinity, carried her to the open window and threw her out onto a concrete walkway, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case. He then walked outside, picked up Trinity and repeatedly threw her to the ground, the affidavit said.
A man in a neighboring room at the motel intervened with a baseball bat and stopped the attack.
Holder told law enforcement officers that he didn’t want to kill the girl, but he had to, the affidavit states.
“I had to hold my daughter and crush her head so she could go up to the sky,” he allegedly told officers. Kyle Holder faces attempted first-degree murder.
Steve Holder, Kyle’s father, said he has talked to his son since the incident but didn’t get much information.
“I asked him what was going on and he said he couldn’t really remember what happened,” Steve Holder said. “That’s all he would say.”
