Batkid wins his toughest challenge
Youngster who captured hearts has been free of cancer for five years
When he was 5 years old and battling leukemia, the boy known as Batkid captivated the world as he dramatically “saved” Gotham from the bad guys in 2013. He just clinched another, much bigger, victory: He passed his five-year mark being cancer free.
It is an important milestone for Miles Scott, now 10, who lives in northern California and was diagnosed with leukemia when he was a year old.
“He’s doing great!” announced the Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area foundation, which helped make Miles’ crime-fighting dream come true in 2013 by staging events across San Francisco.
Tens of thousands of people watched him lock up the Riddler during a bank heist and save a kidnapped victim from the Penguin.
The foundation pulled out all the stops, converting two black Lamborghinis into Batmobiles, as the tot was guided by pleas of help from San Francisco’s thenpolice chief Greg Suhr.
Miles, who lives with his parents and younger brothers, is now just a regular kid who loves science and robotics, according to Make-A-Wish.
“Miles has returned to being a typical kid — playing little league, going to school, helping his family farm, and even selling his first market goat in the local fair!” the foundation said in a statement.
At the time of the Batkid extravaganza, Miles had endured three years of cancer treatments, and the event was to mark his last round of “toxic drugs.”
“This wish has meant closure for our family and an end to over three years of putting toxic drugs in our son’s body,” his mother, Natalie Scott, said at the time.