An 11-year-old girl suffering from a brain dysfunction that has left her physically disabled was denied entrance to a Georgia museum because her wheelchair “would get the carpets dirty.”
Lexi Hass, an 11-year-old girl from Charlotte, N.C., has a disease called Kernicterus, which is caused by high levels of bilirubin and causes neurological complications. Haas suffers from an induced brain dysfunction that has left her physically disabled and bound to a wheelchair.
The girl’s family visited Savanna, Ga., last weekend, where they hoped to visit the Ships of the Sea Museum on Sunday. The exhibits are located in an old home, and Dr. Ken Haas told WBTV that he knew it might be difficult to bring his daughter. But he said the reason the family was denied entrance“didn’t make any sense to me.”
After carrying his daughter’s wheelchair up a flight of stairs to the museum entrance, the family was told that the girl could not come in because the wheelchair would “get the carpets dirty.”
“I said, what about our shoes? Do people have to take those off?” the girl’s father told WTOC. “I was flabbergasted.”
Museum staff offered an alternative wheelchair that they had available, but the girl could not fit in it and it also lacked the straps that the 11-year-old needs. Personnel then told the family that they could“have Lexi sit outside and watch a video on a tiny TV while the rest of us walked through the exhibits,” the Haas family wrote in a Facebook post after the incident.
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