Autistic teenager kicked baby in the face

-Tauren- said:
if it was your kid, you would have probably reacted in the same way. or do you not have any?
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I don't have any, and you'll say, you can never understand then.

yes I can, my first thought would be get in the way and protect my child. I wouldn't care about the other guy, or possibly provoking him more, I'd get my child and move away. if you do anything else its because you want revenge and thats it, plain and simple, if you want to do whats right for your kid, its called, get your kid to safety and get him treated.

I love the BS, i'd batter him because its my kids thing. Its an excuse nothing more, nothing less. Its NOT your kid here, but your first reaction is to beat the guy to death.

But lets hope if it happens to you, you can have fun beating the hell out of the guy while your kid sits there suffering, choking on blood or worse. What happens if the guy can beat your ass, autistic doesn't mean weak, what if he beats your ass, does get angry, takes it out on your kid and because you're unconcious you can do nothing about it. kid, safe, end of, any answer other than that and you're "but I'm a parent" thing holds no ground.
 
-Tauren- said:
. i think the carers of the teenager do need to keep a closer eye on him though to make sure this doesn't happen again.
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I think they where probbably as surprised about it as everyone else. It's not something that really occurs to a normal person so is easily overlooked. But you can bet they feel worse than most about it and combined with the SS be making sue it doesn't happen again.
 
knip said:
Thats a whole other kettle of fish, one which drives me mad as well. I constantly see disabled people and their "carers" out on jollies which are of no benefit to the child and more of a day trip for the adults in their care. Taking an austistic person to a busy cafe was not a good idea to be honest.

Ive reported people in the past, there was one group of kids out on a school trip to Ikea, apparently they were there to look at the colours and patterns, but by the amount of shopping in the adults trollies that clearly told another story. I complained to the headmaster of the school (they had uniform on so I could get the schools name)

As I said though, thats a whole other story....
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God are you really a busy body? How about minding your own business on matter like that.
 
If he is autistic a broken nose might be all he will understand. :)


But seriously if he is mental and likely to do this kind of thing he should be supervised 24/7.

Parents should be charged.
 
Sorry but yeah someone is to blame there, if this guy is autistic why on earth is he on his own. How many other people is he going to hit for no reason? He could have killed that kid.
 
teaboy5 said:
God are you really a busy body? How about minding your own business on matter like that.
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Whatever, what they were doing was verging on abusive. They were safe in the knowledge that little johnny when he went home wouldnt be able to tell Mummy or Daddy that what he did that day was going shopping. It wouldnt happen in a state school so why should a special school be any different. There would be outrage if kids were being taken to shopping centres as part of the school day if they were in a mainstream school. They did it because they could get away with it, which is wrong.
 
Viper² said:
While everyone else would just stand around and make sure the guy hasn't got a mental ilness before laying into him?
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Well if you want to be a pedant, it's not hard to tell if a person has Down's or not. I would have done the same thing though, it's my kid so I think we're both agreeing in principle here.
 
fail at the internets said:
He shouldn't be aloud to go out in public if he can't stop himself from hitting a baby.
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Corrected. There is a vast difference between (for example) a 12 year old child and a 7 month old baby.

To be honest if it had been my baby he had stamped in the face and I was there I would have beaten the hell out of him.

It's like with dogs who dump on the floor - no good dragging them over there and shoving their nose in it half an hour later when you find out. You have to catch them in the act and then punish them so they associate the unpleasantness of punishment with dumping on the floor.

The autistic bloke may not have the communications skill of normal people, but if he gets a world of pain everytime he hurts someone else he will soon learn not to hurt other people, autism or no - self preservation instinct will kick in and he will avoid circumstances that might hurt him.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Its not surprising, he has a medical condition.

The leading case i can think of is R v G and another, where a conviction should be dependant on proving the state of mind of the individual defendant, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, Latin for an act does not make a defendant guilty without a guilty mind.

He autistic, lacking the mental capacity, thats the end of it really.
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Exactly what he said.
 
I don't blame the autistic kid, but think of the parents of the young child.

Kid's that severley mental should not be allowed out in public unless they're handcuffed to a big man.
 
autistic :rolleyes:

Basically what used to be called 'a wierdo'.

Society needs to accept that people are different. I think a lot of so called 'special needs' and disabilities are rubbish.

Dsylexia for one. "Agh i put letters and words the wrong way round!"

TOUGH!
 
Jono8 said:
autistic :rolleyes:

Basically what used to be called 'a wierdo'.

Society needs to accept that people are different. I think a lot of so called 'special needs' and disabilities are rubbish.

Dsylexia for one. "Agh i put letters and words the wrong way round!"

TOUGH!
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wtf :/

autism can be a pretty severe mental illness.
 
Jono8 said:
autistic :rolleyes:

Basically what used to be called 'a wierdo'.

Society needs to accept that people are different. I think a lot of so called 'special needs' and disabilities are rubbish.

Dsylexia for one. "Agh i put letters and words the wrong way round!"

TOUGH!
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Jesus christ you sound like a twit.
 
Some of the comments posted in this thread are frankly staggering.
I hope that those of you this applies to ever has to cope with a special needs child/adult, because with opinions like yours, you would probably do them more harm than good.
 
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