Comments on: Fears, More Fears and Too Many Mistakes

By: Something No One Wants to Hear About

Something No One Wants to Hear About — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:30:52 +0000

[...] why Jim and I have become more hesitant and choosy than ever about babysitters for Charlie: We just have to be so careful, plus. Tags: abuse, asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, Crime, disabilities blog, Family, family [...]

By: Parents Sue School District For Not Protecting Their Daughter

Parents Sue School District For Not Protecting Their Daughter — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:41:11 +0000

[...] awful, and not the first such crime of this sort noted here—-and a puzzling response from the school district. Tags: asd, [...]

By: Bonnie Sayers

Bonnie Sayers — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:21:58 +0000

I hope he is labeled as a sex offender and on the registry. So it seems that this aide was not aware that he was being observed. Just imagine if it was another student that noticed and then told. That aide would still be in the classroom to this day.

By: An Argument about “Difference” and “Deviance”

An Argument about “Difference” and “Deviance” — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:14:53 +0000

[...] in a sentence with “pedophilia,” especially in regard to stories like this and this, and to the very real fears and worries that parents have to take to protect disabled children. [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:12:45 +0000

From WIVB:

A grand jury has indicted a Buffalo teacher’s aide for allegedly fondling a boy with autism at the school.

Teacher’s aide John Colazzi is accused of sexually abusing a four-year-old boy with autism in a school bathroom last November.

A grand jury has now indicted him.

Colazzi pleaded not guilty to first degree sexual abuse charges. He was released on five thousand dollars bail.

Very troubling is that the parents of the child were not notified until 4 months after a teacher had reported the abuse.

By: Regan

Regan — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:05:55 +0000

When I was a little kid I thought things adults did seemed screwy because I was a little kid and when I grew up that it would all make sense.

Wrong.

Schools/school systems/school administrators covering their butts in these situations and offering serious sounding explanations of not-doing-the-right-thing is just wrong, but unfortunately it is something that I have gotten used to hearing about.

By: resilientmom

resilientmom — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:50:47 +0000

This is a parent’s worst nightmare. Sexual abuse should be punished to the full extent of the law!
I am grateful that I have a verbal child. However, abuse comes in all types, and variations. Scary business.
Years ago, an aide pushed our son against a garbage container…it was reported to me by another aide, and I requested that he be removed. He then left the system. He never returned to the system the following year.

By: Club 166

Club 166 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:26:13 +0000

…Superintendent Williams is reported as saying “‘”Mistakes were made, but you don’t make a second mistake’”—-…

You see, he wasn’t referring to the parents not being notified. He was referring to getting egg on his own face from having this blow up.

He’s saying that next time he’ll be more careful to cover things up better.

Joe