When a jury of the County of Stafford this month above found autistic boy guilty of assault on a law enforcement officer and recommended that he spend 101/2 years in prison, a woman in the second row sobbed.
It is the mother of the respondent. It would not be crying until she reaches her car. He was Champion of Teresa.
Champion had sat through the trial of days and could not help to draw parallels between the defendant, Reginald "neli" Latson, 19, and son James, a 17 years with autism aged.
James might have said this, she thought. James could have done that. It had fresh bruises on his body which showed that James, too, had lost his nerve at the violence.
"This is what we live with," said the Champion, Springfield. "When they go on the edge, there is no folding."
The cause of autism - a complex developmental disability that affects the ability to communicate and interact with others - is the subject of a heated debate. What is not disputed, it is the soaring number of children have the disorder. In 1985, autism had been diagnosed in the United States 2,500 people; the rate is now one in 110.
Said champion parents begin just to recognize what she calls the "dark side of autism," the ability of their children for abuse when they are frustrated, angry or overstimulated. His son recently struck his attendant and attacked his father in front of a movie theatre. Other parents describe scary episodes of biting, kicking and hitting.
It is not easy to talk about children denouncing the, a declared the Champion. But it is necessary because many get older and larger and most want independence, which led to private struggles becoming public.
In the trial of three days of Latson, no one disputed that he assaulted a Stafford Assistant one morning in May. The MP is bleeding that officers with respondents believed that he had been shot down.
But why Latson - who has Asperger's, a relatively mild form of autism - has done and he could have stopped himself played a central role in its defence and committed the sympathy of parents in the Washington area and beyond.
"Everyone is like,"Oh my God, this is my son,"", said Ann Gibbons of the Autism Speaks advocacy group. She said to the attention of the case of calls to two essential questions: "how we protect the community, and how we protect the person with a disability?"
"And in this case, we either protect", she said.
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