Remembering Kayla Ricon-Miller: Investigation continues one month after her deathParents react to bill requiring education of communism in k-12
FILE – In this Feb. 29, 2016 file photo, American student Otto Warmbier speaks to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Secretary of State Tillerson said Tuesday, June 13, 2017, that North Korea released the jailed U.S. university student (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File) WYOMING, Ohio (AP) The Latest on an American college student freed this week by North Korea (all times local): 10:10 a.m. An Ohio hospital spokeswoman says the American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma suffered a “severe neurological injury.” Kelly Martin of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said Thursday that Otto Warmbier (WORM’-bir) is in stable condition after arriving at the hospital two days ago. Doctors plan a news conference on campus later Thursday. His father, Fred Warmbier, said Thursday he does not believe North Korea’s explanation that the coma resulted from botulism and a sleeping pill. Fred Warmbier said there’s relief to have their son home in the arms of those who love him and anger that he was so brutally treated for so long. ___ 8:10 a.m. Doctors treating an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma plan to discuss his medical condition. Twenty-two-year-old Otto Warmbier (WORM’-bir) was taken immediately to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after his arrival Tuesday night in Ohio. A UC Health spokeswoman says doctors will have a news conference on campus Thursday afternoon. His parents plan a Thursday morning news conference. His father Fred Warmbier told told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that his son, Otto, was “terrorized and brutalized” during his 17-month detention and has been in a coma for more than a year. He said Otto “is not in great shape right now” and that his family is “adjusting to a different reality.” ___ 12:13 a.m. The father of an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea and was returned to his home state of Ohio in a coma says the family is “adjusting to a different reality.” Fred Warmbier (WORM’-bir) told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that his son, Otto, was “terrorized and brutalized” during his 17-month detention and has been in a coma for more than a year. The father says that he and his wife, Cindy, only learned of their son’s condition last week. The 22-year-old University of Virginia student was medically evacuated from North Korea and arrived in Cincinnati late Tuesday. He was then taken by ambulance to a hospital.