A 12-year-old girl who was mercilessly tortured by her stepfather in the Bronx appeared in a TikTok video dancing to the song “Still Alive” despite enduring what her mother described as a “long road to recovery.”

Joshua Burnside, 29, allegedly jabbed his 12-year-old stepdaughter with two knives, a fork, a crochet needle, a spoon, tongs and a plate, before driving what prosecutors with the Bronx DA’s office revealed on Wednesday was a 6-inch-long needle through her nose and into her brain.

Burnside was arraigned on an indictment before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alvin Yearwood Wednesday for attempted aggravated murder, attempted murder, assault, attempted assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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