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Teen girl's prosthetic leg stolen for second time
Thieves break into softball player's room and take $16,000 'sports leg'

Updated: 9:38 a.m. ET Feb. 15, 2006
TEMPLE CITY, Calif. - For the second time in recent months, somebody broke into a 16-year-old girl’s home and stole her prosthetic leg — including one that had been donated following the first crime, authorities said.

The thieves took a $12,000 cosmetic leg and a donated $16,000 leg that Melissa Huff uses to play softball, her mother, Lisa Huff, said. She said a camera in the room was untouched.

“It’s insane. Who hates her that bad?” Lisa Huff said. “I went back to the girls’ room and the room was trashed. Mostly Melissa’s stuff.”

In the first theft, on Nov. 1, someone cut a hole in a window screen and also took video games and other items, authorities said. Her doctor and two real estate finance companies donated money for a new, shock-absorbent “sports leg” with a flexible foot.

On Tuesday, the thief pried open a screen window in the home, about 12 miles east of Los Angeles, said sheriff’s Sgt. Russell Sprague. He said authorities have no leads.

Melissa’s right leg was amputated two years ago after she was struck by a car. She resumed playing competitive softball after the accident and is now a high school sophomore.

“Now, she has nothing to walk with,” said her father, David Huff.
One of my blonde female co-workers immediately saw that last statement and came up with a thought that she only spoke out part of saying, "Duh! she has another leg!" Her thought was she could use a crutch or something to help walk, but the whole office burst out laughing at her. She is kind of ditsy anyway. This has been a good day, except for the 1 legged girl. Irony to the story would be if the girls name was Eileen.