Unfortunately Jacqueline…it is true. We all know it is the tip of the iceberg when they expose these……so disgusting and infuriating.
This was reported in the Schafer Autism Report May 20th – article cut and pasted below.
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Mother Records Autistic Child's Alleged Abuse
By Jaye Watson for 11alive.com. is.gd/BpT3
Atlanta — Stefan is an 11-year-old boy with Autism. A judge ruled he was physically and verbally abused at school.
He is an Atlanta Public School student but because of his special needs, he goes to schools run by a state agency called Metro North.
They line the outside of each leg — bruises from knee to hip. A judge has ruled a school employee caused these injuries to 11-year-old Stefan Ferrari the day before pictures were taken.
Stefan cannot speak. He has Autism, and is non-verbal.
He could not tell his parents — couldn't tell anyone — what happened to him. But he had a mother who believed, before this happened, that something was terribly wrong at his school.
Stefan went to Margaret Mitchell Elementary School in Buckhead, where he was doing well, but he was transferred to the Marshall School in DeKalb County in August 2008, due to renovations.
That's when the Ferraris say things started to fall apart.
"I knew something was really wrong for the first time on September 8th," said Stefan's mother, Carolyn Ferrari.
That's when she said Stefan came home with bloody scratches, bruises and ripped shorts. His behavior over the next month deteriorated.
"It was getting worse and worse," Carolyn said.
Marcelo and Carolyn Ferrari say they repeatedly told school officials they were concerned. So the mother of a boy without a voice found a way to give him one.
"It's about the size of a quarter," Carolyn said about a microphone she sewed into Stefan's shirt. She sent him to school with it on October 21.
It would be his last day at Marshall.
"As soon as he took his boxers off to get in the shower, I noticed it," said Stefan's father, Marcelo Ferrari. "And I was like, 'oh my God'."
Marcelo was shocked by the severe bruising covering his son's legs. He and his wife went straight to the tape.
"Sit down stupid," was one of the things they heard on the tape.
"It was horrifying," Carolyn said. "I was visibly sick. I felt like I was going to vomit."
Carolyn and Marcelo stayed up all night listening to hour after hour of what they say was the neglect, ridicule and abuse of their son.
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