2 Md. Girls Charged With Sexually Abusing Autistic Teen Boy

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Why aren't the media covering this as voraciously as they push the fanciful notion that autistics are violent? Where are the talking heads? Where are the groups that purport to speak for autistics?

2 Md. Girls Charged With Sexually Abusing Autistic Teen Boy
March 12, 2014
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/03/1 ... -teen-boy/

LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) — Two teenage girls in southern Maryland bullied an apparently autistic 16-year-old boy into performing sexual acts and crashing through pond ice in episodes they captured on cell phone video, authorities said Wednesday.

The girls, ages 17 and 15, threatened the intellectually disabled victim with a knife, kicked him in the groin and dragged him around by his hair, said St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Cara Grumbels. They coerced him into walking on a partially frozen pond and then refused to help him out of the frigid water, she said.

Grumbels said the boy got out himself, but the prank could have turned deadly.

“You’re dealing with somebody who doesn’t have the mental capacity of you and I,” she said. “Somebody like that could go into a kiddie pool and may not be able to get themselves out. That’s what’s really kind of disturbing to us, among the other allegations in this case. The whole thing’s just very disturbing.”

She said investigators haven’t found any of the video online.

The 17-year-old, Lauren A. Bush, of Mechanicsville, was charged as an adult Tuesday with first- and second-degree assault, false imprisonment and solicitation for child pornography. She was released on her own recognizance.

The 15-year-old was charged as a juvenile with the same offenses and referred to the state Department of Juvenile Services. The sheriff’s office didn’t release her name.

Grumbels said both girls acknowledged they committed the offenses. A call to Bush’s home wasn’t returned. No defense attorney was listed in court records.

Grumbels said the boy’s parents told police he is autistic.

She said all three teens attended Chopticon High School in Morganza.

Police learned of what happened from a parent of the younger girl who had seen the video on her daughter’s phone, Grumbles said. The parent showed it to a sheriff’s deputy who works in the school, she said.

Grumbels said there is no evidence other students joined the bullying.

She said more charges are likely as investigators list offenses for each episode that authorities say occurred from early December to early February.

karma and those girls have an appointment some time in the future.

A government agency saying it is their fault not the Autistic persons fault. What a refreshing change. The defense will try and say he provoked it. Lets hope they fail.

evil pyschopathic pieces of crap-they are a danger to the vulnerable of society and shoud never be released,it wasnt just the lad who got abused it was his pet dog to.
hope the young ladies in kiddy prisons also have the same morals as their adult criminal peers;as in child abusers being top of the scum hierarchy,this will teach them a lesson about what its like being vulnerable and a target of evil.

I hope they get the maximum punishment allowed for what I presume to be a first offense rather than a 'slap on the wrist' sentence (six months to a year in jail/juvie and a few months to a year in rehab).

Of course, my immediate reaction on reading the article, due to my instinctive hatred for sex criminals and those who abuse autistics being combined in one go, was more like: fry the older girl ten years from now (if Md. has the death penalty) and put the younger one away for 20.