By, “special needs” they seem to mean, “behavioral disorder.” When I was in school in the ‘90’s and early ‘00’s, they lumped the slow kids in with the BD kids and it usually didn’t help either. Not to mention that BD generally meant, “You don’t wan’na and we don’t know what else to do with you.”
I promise that this teen was not so slow that he couldn’t understand that beating on someone, let alone a woman much smaller than he, is a no-no.
Its time for George to take Lenny to the meeting spot and they could talk about the plan and how Lenny was going to have all the Nintendos he wanted and he could play wif dem and love dem and...... bang.