13 days after he was beaten up inside a Belize City club Vitalino Reyes Jr remains in a coma at the KHMH. His family says he is showing modest signs of recovery - but still cannot speak. They believe he can hear them - and add that he has been taken off the ventilator, so they are encouraged. But he is not out of the woods, far form it. Six men have been charged for inflicting the wounds that resulted in his coma, but today his father told us why he is still very bitter:
Vitalino Reyes Sr.
"No satisfaction because my son is still in there. They could eat, they could laugh, they drinking, they shouting, they are doing everything getting the same air that God provide us, but my son is not doing that. Just that God is so good to us that he is making a miracle. I feel sad. I have never ever cry so much like this time in my life."
Jules Vasquez
"There must be some satisfaction to know that it's not just you against him that the police have agreed with you."
Vitalino Reyes Sr.
"I don't know if the police agree with me. They did it, it's not that they agree with me. It's just that they investigate it and they found out that they are, but I mean how satisfied can I be? They just were arrested two hours and then released."
Reporter
"Does it angry you more that Mr. Yhonny has repeatedly say that he didn't have anything to do with it? He and his crowd were there, but they didn't have anything to do with the beating of your son."
Jules Vasquez
"Even in the face of the arrest and being charged in court?"
Vitalino Reyes Sr.
"Well I am not into anger anymore because I know the law in Belize is not something that will punish the person that does it. It's only on the opinion of the magistrates. If you can talk good and you can convince that person - that's it. It's not that I can say the truth. But that be able to convince her or him then the other person that could talk better and pretty - that will be the person that will be released. So it's not a matter of anger. I am not anger anymore. God will deal with that, not me. I am just a human."
Reyes says Doctors have not given any indication of his long term prognosis.
