PELHAM, Ala. (AP) — April 11, 2010.
It started out as any other day for mother Brandy Dahlen and her family. Then it was anything but.
Daughter Abigail Hope Dahlen had turned 2 just two days earlier. She was playing ball with her brother Samuel and sister Anna Faith in the yard of their Helena home.
"She chased the ball into his driveway right at the time he was backing up," the mother recalled about her neighbor. The driver was unable to see the girl.
A short time later, little Abigail died in the hospital -- and a lifelong cause and quest had begun.