By all accounts, this child was raised in a loving and caring family -- by people who could have easily place him in an institution. Would that, in your minds, have been a better solution? Out of sight, out of mind?
They don't deserve your nattering finger-pointing. Take it someplace else.
I took care of a dying mother from lung cancer. I know all about it.
And you are absolutely wrong when you say, “BY ALL ACCOUNTS”
Do a google search on the word autism and Travolta and see how people in the autism community felt about the Travoltas and Jett.
By the way, what does Scientology say about putting a kid in an institution?