Boy Seriously Injured by Aunt
December 1, 2007 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
This story made me gasp and think about why we need to focus on helping autistic persons and their families now. A 12-year-old autistic boy in Florida was stabbed in the eyes with a large knife by his aunt on Friday around 1am, the Sun-Sentinel reports. The aunt then stabbed herself in the eye—-and the boy remained with relatives for 10 hours afterwards, before paramedics arrived and determined that he could not see. The boy is at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
Very, very tragic. I have no idea if it’s related, but the wording by the Aunt . . .
They were pulling the woman away, and she was ranting and raving about suppressed people,” neighbor Joanne Kull said. “She looked very angry.”
. . . reminded me of the following:
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/sp.html
OMFG!
a) Why was he not sent to the hospital right away?
b) Why is knife wielder not in CUSTODY? Forget the hospital, if the kid doesn’t get it neither should she. A pirate eye patch should be good enough.
The poor boy!
I cried reading about this–I just can’t understand the evil people sometimes do to one another.
Why was there a 10 HOUR DELAY until the paramedics were called? I can’t even imagine the pain and confusion that he was going through without medical support.
The aunt must be mentally ill…or I at least I would not be surprised to find out so, but it still doesn’t explain the delay.
The accounts say that permanent blindness is the prognosis, but he’s at a specialized eye center. I so hope that there is a chance that some measure of sight can be retained or restored.
Tragic and so so sad.
Further explanation, which only makes the story weirder. At least the Aunt’s boyfriend had the sense to call the paramedics.
She is being charged with attempted first-degree murder, and there is slight hope that sight in one eye might be saved.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbstabbing1202sbdec02,0,7939335.story
Ugh…
My stomach twisted when I read this, and usually I’m pretty stoic (though not unemotional) in these matters.
I hope the very best for him. But even more than his eyesight, his ability to trust people is probably pretty well screwed up now, if it wasn’t before (and who knows, considering he may have been around the aunt more, making this one piece of a larger tragedy).
The aunt may be mentally ill, and if so should get treatment, but she needs to be sent away from ever seeing him again, if not from the rest of society.
Sick…
Cliff
At least the boy is alive and hopefully, to some extent, one eye may be salvaged. I can’t imagine the suffering he went through all of those hours.
Leaving the boy without help because they didn’t want the mother to get in trouble speaks volumes about the lack of value placed upon this boy.
Corretion: my above comment should have read not wanting to get the aunt in trouble.
It’s the 10 hour delay to get help that rankles me.
THIS CRAZY LADY NEEDS TO BE HUNG OR STABBED IN HER EYES.I HAVE A SON WITH AUTISM AND HES A BLESSING AND MY LITTLE ANGEL.I STILL CALL HIM MY LITTLE ANGEL AND HES 13 YEARS OLD.
OUR PRAYERS WILL BE WITH THIS YOUNG MAN
GOD BLESS DENISE.P
I’m going to sound morbid, because I will probably be tracking this until I know what some long-term outcome is for this boy and the arrests in the case.
Reading more closely into it, I hope…really hope… that this was not a case of exorcism gone wrong. There was another similar case with the same scenario in New Zealand that was an exorcism.
If it should turn out to be a planned exorcism rather than a random act, then that would be something that would worry me very much, because it might indicate potential to have a repeat elsewhere. I never want to have a repeat of this again… for anyone.
Let us know what you find…..speechless…..
Oh no.
Not another round of exorcisms…
*twitch*
Oh… please update, if all possible.
Cliff
Neighbor Kyle Montagna grew up with Edward [Babington] and attended the same middle school.
“I remember for our grade graduation he got straight As and I remember he was a little shy to get up but everybody clapped for him. It was a really nice moment,” Montagna said. “He didn’t deserve anything like this. He wouldn’t hurt anything.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22087895/
The Florida boy is now out of the hospital, as noted in the Florida Sun-Sentinel. Doctors removed his left eye and his right eye’s lens; he will never see 20/20 again.
“…Alex still laughs, still plays around, but he remembers what happened very well. It still scares him,” William Babington said.
The Association for Retarded Citizens — a national organization with a Broward County branch — has also set up a special trust fund for the teen, who can no longer see.
There is a chance he may recover some sight in his right eye, his father said…”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-1220eyestab,0,1775469.story?coll=sofla_home_xpromo
Anyone interested in donating to the trust fund for Alex can call the Association for Retarded Citizens of South Florida at 305-759-8500.