Shocked, sad, speechless, sickened: none of these words quite describes how I felt on reading about a Minnesota couple who made their 15-year-old son who has Asperger?s Syndrome live under constant video surveillance in a basement room with no lights and foam over the windows. The teenager was only allowed out when he was doing ?military-style? exercises, performing chores or using the restroom.
The boy?s stepfather and mother, Gregory and Angela Danner, have been arrested and face one count each of malicious punishment of a child and neglect of a child. They could each be jailed for up to two years and charged with fines of up to $6,000.
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Autistic Teen?s Only Friend Turns Out to Be Undercover Cop, Arrests Him in Drug Sting
by Kristina Chew
November 5, 2013
1:00 pm
Autistic Teen?s Only Friend Turns Out to Be Undercover Cop, Arrests Him in Drug Sting
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The parents of a teenage son with Asperger?s Syndrome are suing his school district in Southern California on the grounds that he was unfairly targeted by an undercover police officer posing as a student. The then-17-year-old has suffered ?psychological scarring? after his arrest, his parents, Doug and Catherine Snodgrass, assert in explaining why they are suing the Temecula Valley Unified School District, the director of child welfare and attendance Michael Hubbard and the director of special education Kimberly Velez on charges including negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/autistic-te ... z32ybOdHQH Just wrong.
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