Gavin Newsom ignored calls to help girl, 5, left with half a skull in crash caused by illegal immigrant, dad says

The heartbroken father of a 5-year-old girl who suffered life-altering injuries in a multi-vehicle pileup caused by an illegal-immigrant truck driver says Gov. Gavin Newsom has stonewalled the family’s desperate calls for help.

Dalilah Coleman, now 7, was left nonverbal and is relearning how to walk after her family vehicle was srtuck in a 2024 wreck by an 18-wheeler driven by Partap Singh, an illegal immigrant from India.

Singh, who had been given a commercial driver’s license by the state despite his immigration status, was speeding through a construction zone and failed to stop his truck for traffic, leading to the horrifying crash, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“When Dalilah’s accident first happened, I reached out to the governor’s office, via phone as well as email. I received nothing back at all,” Marcus Coleman said on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.”

Singh entered the country illegally through the southern border in October 2022 but was released by the Biden administration. He was rearrested by ICE in August 2025 to face deportation proceedings.

Dalilah spent three weeks in a coma and required six months of hospital treatment, which included a craniectomy, before her family could bring her home, leaving her without half her skull for four months, DHS said, citing Coleman.

The accident left Dalilah unable to eat food orally, and she suffered a broken femur, skull fractures and has since been diagnosed with diplegic cerebral palsy and global developmental delay, which will require lifelong therapy.

But despite her debilitating injuries and unimaginably painful recovery, pleas by her family to get government assistance to help cover her treatments have fallen on deaf ears.

“It’s just kind of left up to us to sit there and take care of what we need to take care of,” Coleman said, telling Cain the family was even denied Social Security benefits.

“I’m here … trying to make ends meet to satisfy her needs. And even then, we’re still falling short and there’s nobody there to help us with it,” he added.

Coleman, himself a truck driver, vented his frustration with California’s lax regulations around giving foreign-born truck drivers commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), calling the practice “gross negligence.”

He accused California’s leadership, including Newsom, of putting politics ahead of safety.

“I think they’re trying to do what’s going to favor them in the long run, no matter how many people it hurts,” he said.

Coleman’s anger was echoed by Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who wrote on X that “California’s weak leadership is failing Americans like Dalilah every day.”

He said the only public acknowledgement Newsom has made of the family’s suffering was a social media post last September in which he accused President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of politicizing the crash.

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“It’s deeply disappointed to see Secretary Noem politicized such a horrific tragedy,” Newsom wrote on X in response to Noem calling out California’s DMV for issuing a CDL to an illegal immigrant.

” The FEDERAL government issued the driver a federal work permit (and RENEWED IT AFTER THE ACCIDENT), making him eligible for a driver’s license — not only in California, BUT IN ANY STATE,” Newsom added.

“Madam Secretary, please stop peddling false and misleading information.”

Last November, California revoked 17,000 CDLs issued to immigrants after a shocking audit revealed that the expiration dates went past the dates when the drivers were allowed to legally be in the US.

Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for comment by The Post.