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A 10-year-old Virginia girl has died of COVID-19 days after she started feeling sick. The parents of Teresa Sperry thought The post Virginia parents mourn daughter, 10, who died from COVID-19 ...
The parents of Jonathan Carey, an autistic 13-year-old, transferred him out of Anderson in 2003 after learning the center had withheld food from the boy to punish him for taking off his shirt at ...
Lacey Ellen Fletcher (November 25, 1985 – January 3, 2022) was autistic and reportedly experienced bullying in high school. Her parents, Sheila and Clay Fletcher, later withdrew her from school in favor of homeschooling. Sheila and Clay were known to complain about Lacey, stating that they had not wanted to be caregivers when they became parents.
Virginia McCullough (born 20 October 1987) [1] is a British convicted murderer serving life imprisonment for the murders of her parents, John and Lois McCullough, who were poisoned with prescription medication (and battered and stabbed to death in the case of Lois) at their home in Great Baddow, Essex, in June 2019.
Autism is found in roughly 1 in 36 children in the U.S., or 2.7%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Strober said that when her son was diagnosed in 2005, only 1 in 166 ...
A lot of autistic people rallied in favor of a conviction of Frank-McCarron, and Katie's death garnered intense scrutiny within the autism rights movement and among disability advocates. [ 6 ] [ 21 ] Autism Hub held a memorial on May 24 and the disability rights group Not Dead Yet led the charge to reveal the facts of the case. [ 6 ]
State health officials say they’ve fixed a new data tool tracking child coronavirus cases that had significantly underreported hospitalizations, making the new count 1.5 times higher. The ...
The Disability Day of Mourning is observed annually on 1 March [1] to commemorate disabled people who were murdered by their caregivers, especially their parents. First observed in 2012 and propagated by disability rights organizations such as Not Dead Yet and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the day aims to bring attention to the issue of filicide of disabled children and adults and the ...