Thieves break into sheds and steal bike from disabled boy

Updated: Friday, March 28 2014, 09:23 AM EDT

By: Maria Miller

UPPER YODER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- At least Cambria County families were stolen from over the weekend as thieves broke into backyard sheds and took tools and ATVs from homes in Upper Yoder Township, including a very special dirt bike for a very special little boy with a debilitating disease.

It was two years ago when 6 News introduced its viewers to Frank Weaver as his mom began her fight to get him special medicine to help slow down his disease. Now, his family is again fighting against time to get his bike back before he's too sick to use it anymore.

Lynne Faint, Frank's mother, said she and at least five of her neighbors woke up this past weekend to find the locks on their backyard sheds cut off and many of the things they kept inside gone.

"Quads, dirt bikes and also chainsaws, gardening stuff and things like that," Faint said.

Also missing was a bike designed specially for her son. He has Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, a disease that weakens and eliminates his muscle. It's already affecting his walking and could very soon bind him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

"It was specially bought for him and he saved his money for it," Faint said. "It was an opportunity for him to feel really special and to have a dirt bike like all the other kids in the neighborhood have."

"I got that specially made for me with training wheels on it," Weaver said. "The training wheels are like blue and it's easier for me to ride so I don't fall off."

Police are investigating the thefts and some of the neighbors have already gotten their stuff back. But Frank is still waiting for his bike and until that happens, both he and his mom have a message for the people who stole it.

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