Jimmy Kleinsasser, a Tight End for the Minnesota Vikings football team caused a motor vehicle accident in October 2004. The victim, at the time of the accident, was a recently divorced single mother of four children who had just undergone surgery less then a month prior. The accident caused the family a great deal of hardship. Not just physical pain and permanent scars for the mother, but emotional scars for herself and her four children. Here are clips of a letter she gave to her attorney:

...my life and the lives of my children have been heavily impacted due to this car accident and I shouldn’t take the value of our lives lightly...

...What w e have lost as a family can not be given back. What was robbed from us and the scarred childhood memories will last forever, no amount of money can fix that...

We have lost more then just money and employment; we have lost part of our spirit and value of life over a three year period of time.

Now we can do our best to move forward and make all the memories we can with the time, even though we have lost much over the years.

I know the person who was the victim of this accident. Over the years I have seen what this injury has done to her, what it has taken from her family and how it has affected her children. This family has been through so much over the last three years. I guess you could say they have had a long run of bad luck.

When this single mother of five went to the mediation, she was emotionally drained and exhausted. All she had on her mind was to get this over with and behind her, knowing that she had a good case she made plans to pay her medical bills and take her kids on a small vacation…that’s it. Instead, the result was the opposite. All the suffering this family went through, all that was robbed from them, the emotional and physical scars that will be there for life…the attorney felt it was worth less then outstanding medical bills and attorney costs.

Crying and upset that the system cheated her and her family, she reluctantly signed the settlement agreement. Knowing that if she didn’t, this could go on for another couple years in trial and court preparations. She wanted to move on.

Does Jimmy Kleinsasser know what this family went through? The trauma that he caused by not paying attention when he was taking that turn that morning in 2004? The victim having lost precious bonding time with her baby due to pain in her arm, not being able to play sports with her kids outside, teach her son how to toss the baseball and football like she did as a little girl, teach them to shoot hoops, go swimming, fishing, etc. Heck, she tried to help them fly kites and nearly lost one because the wind pulled too hard and her arm gave out. Not being able to hold her baby and nurse her when she was mere days old because of pain, discomfort and the fear of dropping her.

If he knew about all what this family went though, why would he allow this? How could someone who claims to love helping other and participating in charitable organizations allow such unfairness to happen? What kind of person would publicize kindness and charity but allow victims of his actions to suffer?