HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - What happens when the victim of a crime survives, but can’t move or communicate, or do anything on their own? That’s the reality for one Connecticut family. The I-Team reveals the justice they want, can’t happen under CT criminal law.

TAY’S STORY:

Taneiysha Rodriguez was the kind of kid who did everything on her own.

“Very independent, knowledgeable. Always took care of other people before her,” says her mother Aneisha.

An independent spirit Aneisha called her, until... she wasn’t.

“Tay,” as her family calls her, is now confined to a bed. Doctors say she’s in a vegetative state, according to Aneisha.

“She’s unable to stand on her own, sit up on her own,” says Aneisha, who has taken on the role of caregiver. “We have to feed her through a G tube. She’s on arti

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