Start treating bullying of special needs people as what they are: criminal actions against individuals who cannot defend themselves appropriately. Start imposing serious consequences regardless of the age of the perpetrator or victim and make them enforceable by law. Anti-bullying laws are not enforced and they do not carry any serious penalties. These need to stop.
Why is this important?
As a mother of an Autistic child who has ended in the hospital more than once, I am outraged that in some occasions the police has even refused to write a report and when they do, no charges are ever filed. The new incident of the child assaulted by pouring bio-hazard waste on him has been treated as a simple prank. Another teen was beat to a pulp with no consequences to his attackers. No more!!
