By Police1 Staff
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — An officer who was paralyzed after injuring her spinal cord while responding to an emergency call is fighting to receive benefits to aid her recovery.
Officer Cora Kerton fell while responding to reports of an unconscious man in 2015, PIX 11 reported. The fall left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Kerton is fighting to gain benefits for full-time care and a new wheelchair, but says she’s not receiving what she’s earned from her 17 years of law enforcement service.
“I am so angry,” she said. “I am just asking for the care I earned and deserve.”
Kerton said she struggles to obtain her medication, medical supplies, and transportation to the doctor.
The city said they don’t “comment on personnel matters and litigation.”
Vin Disbrow, vice president of the Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association, said the union “will continue to represent [Kerton] fully, and do all that we can to insure she is afforded the benefits of a hero she earned through her service protecting the community.”
A GoFundMe has been set up to help Kerton with her needs.