Cameron Knight

Lianna Bryant, like most five-year-old children, has been the center of her mother’s life for five years. Lianna was born with quadriplegic mixed-type cerebral palsy caused by a brain injury at delivery. “She’s why my life has changed, and for the better, in every way,” her mother, Utawna Leap of Middletown, said. Utawna has gone from being married to being single, from being independent to living with her parents, and from studying Botany and selling real estate to being an intense activist for children with disabilities in Butler County.