Posted on 02/24/2023 1:56:56 PM PST by Morgana
A mental health advocate has launched a furious defense for the 6'6" boy, 17, who attacked and knocked a teaching aide unconscious after she took his Nintendo Switch away from him.
Sue Urban - whose 17-year-old son graduated from Matanzas High School before taking his own life - has responded to the incident where a 17-year-old special needs student, who weighs 270 pounds, attacked his teaching aide on Tuesday.
Neither the student nor the teaching aide's names have been released publicly.
'This is not this child's fault. He is not a threat,' Urban said in an emotionally Facebook Live. 'This is a mental health issue. This is a problem with our system, it is broken.
'That post needs to be removed from the Flagler County Sheriff's website immediately.'
Urban, who also has a stepson in the same behavioral wing as the boy in the video, told DailyMail.com this special wing is for 'children that are not in the general population of the high school,' and that her son and the boy were 'school friends,' but in separate classes.
'This is not just a thug,' she told DailyMail.com. 'People need to be educated on children that have ESE [Exceptional Student Education]. They should also be educated on impulsive aggression behavior, and that most times these children do not understand the consequences of the behavior.'
She also told DailyMail.com that the child lived in a group home and his mother did not live in Flagler County, which a faculty member told her at the school board meeting on Wednesday night.
In a Facebook Live, Urban, who became a mental health advocate after her son's death, continued: 'That child has mental health issues. He is just that, a child.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not making light of mother Sue's stepson's needs, but is does seem mother Sue might be encouraged to volunteer to work one on one with the 270 lb Baby Huey to improve his antisocial tendencies.
“...He is not a threat...”
Huh??????????????????
WTH do you call what he did to that teacher???????
What a stupid, utterly ridiculous comment....
He’s not 18, an adult by our legal standards. So yes he is still a child/teen. He’s also special needs and when you watch the video he sounds like he’s slower than molasses in January.
Honesty this kid needs to go away to a state institution for a long time.
They'll understand when the consequences of their behavior are "two to the chest and one to the head". Best get them under control or institutionalized before it gets to that point.
The cause of animal behaviour such as this dirtbag is the Mental health idiots that coddle and try to rehabilitate people who belong in cages.
The kid is not a threat?
Take him home for some supper then.
Make sure your children are there to let them see he is not a threat
No.
They don't.
They teach "special needs" kids to behave badly and to assault people.
Not kidding.
When assault, battery, and other disruptive behavior doesn't result in severe punishment, that is teaching kids it's OK to commit assault, battery, and other disruptive behavior.
He is not a threat,’ Urban said in an emotionally Facebook Live. ‘This is a mental health issue. This is a problem with our system, it is broken.
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Not a threat ?
Brother please.
He beat her unconscious.
The system didn’t kick her in the head, repeatedly.
Evil loving moron enabler.
Jail time is too good for this beast. He needs some prison time. He was stomping this poor woman after he had her down on the floor and unconscious. This is in the video at the source here.
This is manifestly false. Its all on video.
I am not denying the kid may be mentally ill, but Americans (particularly leftists and women, it seems) have a bizarre willingness to convince themselves that up is down, black is white, and water is not wet.
Condoning bad behavior leads to more of it.
Imagine the consequences the young woman will live with as the injuries from this attack will be forever.
This is a mental health problem that can be fixed with about 20 cc of potassium chloride.
If you watch the video of the attack, teachers watched the attack knowing they were and are restricted from touching the attacker. It was students that stopped the attack.
Public schools are places of violence and places where violence against the innocent is overlooked.
Whatever. Keep telling yourself that, Karen. That “thug” needs to be in JAIL with adult males, not juvenile hall.
Sorry her son killed himself but maybe we have a clue as to why...mother was cray-cray.
Says it all.
That link seems to be gone.
“and that most times these children do not understand the consequences of the behavior”
Then someone should get on that.
Or maybe we put him in Kiev and tell him putin stole his Xbox. Or that Biden will revoke his minecraft account.
They all play those stupid games.
It’s amazing that people put up with this crap.
A member of the Superior Race™ strikes again! I didn’t look, but I’ll bet I’m correct. I have not been wrong guessing these things - ever.
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