The three-year-old girl police say was sexually assaulted in her Welland home is ‘barely talking’ as she recovers in hospital after the traumatizing ordeal, a family friend says.

“Little ‘E’ is barely talking… yet she has still found ways to smile at the doctor, nurses and mom,” says Koreen Perry, a local business owner who started a GoFundMe to help the family , a single mom with two daughters.

“Today her (five-year-old) sister was able to get her to eat for the first time in three days! Right now, mom’s unable to work her job in Welland. She’s by her side in the hospital,” Perry writes in the fundraiser.

Niagara Regional Police have said a man broke into a residence in eastern Welland sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday and sexually assaulted a young girl while the family slept.

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