So painful
Kin’s agony after daycare death
in our heartbreak and in our concern for safety around allergies in schools,” the couple wrote.
The dad, in a “Good Morning America” appearance Friday, said he hoped something good might come of his boy’s death.
“I’m (angry) that this had to happen to my son, but the next thing I don’t want is it to happen to somebody else’s son or daughter,” he said.
Neighbors of the family and parents of Elijah’s classmates were still shocked by the boy’s death — and found few answers forthcoming.
Officials explained little Thursday at a news conference six days after the death, declining to even confirm whether the daycare was equipped with a potentially life-saving device like an EpiPen.
Porras, 36, was still struggling with the idea that the child was gone forever.
“There are kids that you see, and they’ve got a bright light in their eyes and you know that everything about them is joy,” Porras said. “The way they take in the world is joy — that was Elijah.”