Town honors child’s life that inspired many [Video]

IMPROVEMENT COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. IN PIEDMONT TODAY, A BENEFIT WAS HELD FOR TEN YEAR OLD RILEY SLAYTON. IT WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO RAISE MONEY, BUT BECAME A TRIBUTE TO HER LIFE AFTER HER PASSING LAST MONDAY, RILEY FACED RETT SYNDROME, A RARE NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT DISORDER. THIS EVENT, ORGANIZED BY A LOCAL BIKE CLUB, BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER TO SUPPORT HER GRIEVING FAMILY. THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A DAY OF HOPE AND HEALING FOR RILEY SLAYTON, A VIBRANT TEN YEAR OLD GIRL WHOSE COURAGE TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES. BUT SHE PASSED AWAY JUST A WEEK BEFORE THE EVENT. SHE WAS QUIET. SHE NEVER CRIED. SHE NEVER, LIKE WAS WHINY OR FUSSY. RILEY’S MOTHER SAYS HER JOURNEY WITH RHETT SYNDROME WAS ANYTHING BUT EASY. FIRST, ABOUT 14 MONTHS, RILEY LOST FUNCTION OF HER RIGHT HAND, PURPOSEFULLY, LIKE SHE JUST ALL OF A SUDDEN COULDN’T USE IT ANYMORE. …