A special needs student at the University of Texas is now in need of the public's help in finding a stolen trailer she used to cart around her scooter from place to place.

Cassi Baird, who has cerebral palsy, was paying $20 a month to protect her trailer at her northeast Austin apartment complex on Parmer Lane and I-35.

Austin Police say someone stole the trailer sometime between midnight Thursday and Friday morning.

"That's just not your typical trailer, that helps me be an independent person, so for them to steal that trailer took part of my independence away from me so I felt very offended and hurt" says Cassi Baird.

The trailer is red on the bottom and is silver on top.

The apartment complex where Cassi kept her trailer has surveillance cameras, but no images of the thief or thieves can be seen on tape because the trailer was taken at night.

Baird says she and her mother were just a few days away from insuring the special trailer which she says is worth about $5,000

Now neither of them have enough money to replace it.

Cassi and her mother say they're checking websites such as eBay and Craig's List everyday to see if someone's trying to sell the trailer.

"I think it's ignorance and it just hurts me that somebody can think it's okay to take something that doesn't belong to them.  Now I have to start thinking if I don't get it back how is that going to change how I do things" says Baird.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Austin Police.