[Nowhere Man]

What’s more asinine, the man who mocked the disabled child or the law that declared it a serious enough crime for that.

Exactly. As bad as it was, being a jerk isn't against the law nor should it be. I mean, someone would say to him, "what in the Hell is wrong with you?" and move on. It seems like they want to make every little thing a crime. Scotty, beam me up!

[Scoutmaster]

If it makes any difference, the mocking incident apparently wasn't isolated. Allegedly, the nine-year-old boy and his father (who were next-door neighbors of the ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy) had been mocking and bullying the girl since 2011.

The girl's family had filed a complaint with the police but no action had been taken. Her father may have taken matters into his own hands, because the neighbors had also filed a complaint.

The girl's grandmother took the video because the boy's father had been mocking the girl at the bus stop. It wasn't a situation where she was lucky and caught the only time he did it.

She posted it to YouTube and public reaction caused the police to act on the family's complaint against the boy's father.

I have no idea what other actions by the boy's father were detailed in the complaint.