Another child with autism murdered
This is a photo of 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel, who was in foster care when he was locked in a closet without food or water for a weekend. His foster parents, who received a grand each month for his care, left home for the weekend to attend some sort of reunion. Arriving home to find Marcus dead, the foster father burned his body and hid it. Then they lied to officials and the public, claiming Marcus had wandered off on a trip to a park when his foster mother had fainted.
He's the third child with autism to be killed this summer in the United States.
Full story here. And commentary about how the news article was written by Whose Planet is it Anyway? here.
4 comments:
the biggest question that i have is why?how come? and don't they have the outward concern that this child could have had great potental and influnace on a great number of people in ones life? the articale states that he had ADHD (which my son haS been diagnosed with) and other stuff that had slowed his learning a bit but i know he could of done great things if someone had not bee so stupid and ignorant and thoughtless to pull a stunt like this.
I don't imagine there's any logic to murdering a child.
Not related, but I noticed that the article states Marcus had the mental age of a 12- to 18-month old, I don't find that so astounding in a child of three. He was definitely behind, developmentally, but so much changes so fast at that age I'm not sure that marking "mental age" in a three-year-old makes much sense.
Seriously, Blue. Even if it's true, how does that justify murder, again?
This is just so horrible that I can't even wrap my brain around it. :(
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