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Mother: “We Have No Insurance, the Bills Are Overwhelming”

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Royalty Newton has Spastic Dipligea Cerebral Palsy, a condition that affects her movement and posture and her mother is seeking assistance from the public.

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6 hours ago

March 11, 2026

Sasha Lightbourne

NASSAU , BAHAMAS- For most parents, doing all they can to help their child have the best possible life is a priority.

Imagine feeling hopeless because your child has a medical condition that requires constant and expensive treatments and the bills are piling up.

That’s the reality for an Abaco mother who refuses to give up, she is seeking assistance from the public.

Our Sasha Lightbourne reports.

Last year, we introduced you to eight-year-old, Royalty Newton, when at the time she was only 7 years old.

She has Spastic Dipligea Cerebral Palsy, a condition that affects her movement and posture. Both of her legs are affected, making it hard for her to walk or keep her balance.

Back then, when we spoke to Royalty’s mother, Deandra Newton, she told us all about her struggle to give her daughter the best possible school experience.

Since then, she’s moved her into a new school.

Deandrea Newton – Royalty’s Mother

“Since I’ve placed her here, there is a bathroom in the classroom and her teacher allows her to sit near the bathroom door so it makes it easier so she can just hold on to the wall and walk right into the bathroom in the classroom; she’s settling great; her grades are awesome; its a smaller environment so its best for her; everything’s been going good so far.”

However, life has been far from perfect.

The issue is that every three months, Royalty has to travel to Fort Lauderdale to get botox injections, which amount to thousands of dollars.

Deandrea Newton – Royalty’s Mother

“We don’t have insurance; she cant get insurance due to her pre-existing condition so everything we do is out of pocket; my family helps, her dad helps, everyone pitches in but now we’re facing a cost of 50 to 60 thousand dollars at Nicholas Children’s Hospital to have her surgery done, that we cannot pull of. The bills are overwhelming doing it out of pocket some Godparents pitch in also; she has an aunt that does a great deal also but I’m pleading to the public for assistance; the Bible say ask and it shall be given “

Making matters worse, Royalty is now losing mobility in one of her legs, according to her mother.

Deandrea Newton – Royalty’s Mother

“If you take your hand and you flop it up and down like one of her feet can do that, but the other one doesn’t none of her toes move so her situation is getting a bit worse like I said she can manage to make a few steps independently then her legs give out; if she uses her walker to make steps she can go a bit further before the legs give out”

Royalty got emotional as her mom spoke to us about her treatment process.

Deandrea Newton – Royalty’s Mother

“They would place her on her stomach and he would use a machine like when he place to, the machine has a wire with an end on it so when he place the end on to her muscles something like a baby doppler machine like when you can hear the baby heartbeat so he can hear what’s going on in the muscles so he can know where to sick here and he would give her six to eight injections in each leg.”

Anyone who wants to donate can send funds to either Newton’s Royal Bank of Canada Account: (Branch) 03085 (Account) 7166663, or her CIBC account: (Branch) 09716 (Account) 201780296.

Newton can also be reached at 817-7682.