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Jessie J buys bike for child with cerebral palsy
Written by . Published: July 09 2014
British singer Jessie J spent $3,740 on a specially-built bicycle for a young cerebral palsy sufferer.
The Price Tag hitmaker discovered through Twitter.com that seven-year-old Ruby Huxter, who cannot walk or talk, needed the custom-built bike to help her muscles develop.
She spotted Ruby's mother, Vicky, appealing for funds on the
Internet and offered to pay the whole sum for the equipment.
Vicky tells Walesonline.co.uk, "Jessie has just done a massive,
massive gesture for us. I would have been fundraising for about
three years to be able to afford it otherwise... Ruby loves the
bike. We just cried when we saw her first start pedalling it - I
thought it would take months or years before she'd be able to."