I’m okay with this.
I watched reports on this earlier today. What I do not understand is why they have not simply had him charged with assault. The kid, autistic or not, is a risk to the neighbors.
And they moved. So, message received.
Why is the lawsuit still going forward?
I’m fine with it, too. If the family cannot control him outside of the home, he may be more than they can handle and this may truly be a scenario where the general welfare needs to be made the priority. I’ve seen similar situations directly and weighed and measured, some parents can’t cut it and are not proper wards for children with exceptional issues.
Some kids really do need to be permanently institutionalized. I think that it is difficult for some parents to face that reality, but when the kid becomes dangerous, they need to accept it.
I wonder if the child actually has autism is just a budding sociopath.
The way to look at this is from the flip side. The boy’s parents can’t handle him so that need has to be addressed for his own safety as well as the safety of the community at large.
Hell, the kid could just ride out in front of a car.
We had children like this when I was growing up.
They weren’t called autistic and sent to therapists and given drugs.
They were called brats and sent to their dads and given ass-whippings.
The ones called autistic back then sat on the floor and rocked back and forth and usually couldn’t talk.
I just recently searched for information on autism and learned a lot. I feel for the parents, but today there is so much help out there. When I was kid they didn’t even have a clue.
The parents didn't see their neighbor's point of view? Talk about being in denial!
There was a case some time ago of a similar autistic man who was annoyed with a child playing near him while he was talking on the phone. He kicked the child.
The child's father saw it and knocked him out. He needed that lesson for the last 10 years and finally got it.
Then the mother gets all enraged at the guy who hit her precious, spoiled monster.
What a tragedy. In earlier and more enlightened times, the parents of autistic children could have sent the child to the state hospital to live and be cared for, given three hots and a cot and medication enough to prevent him from hurting others.
These days the parents have to take care of the child at home, and are trapped within systems that say that they are going to help, but don’t. There is little to no respite and not enough drugs because no one including doctors want to cross the MR MI rights crowd.
And of course there are plenty of people making money off of treating these poor souls during the day.
This ‘autism’ thing. I think it is a fancy term for ‘bad seed.’
The kid can’t help his mental deficiencies but can be held accountable for behavior.
The parents *can* help not punishing their child for assault.