BBC NEWS: Former head sentenced for cruelty
This loathsome creature, who ran a dumping ground, I mean special school, for children with special needs in Norfolk - not a million miles from the place I went to - has got away with a suspended sentence (that is, he will have to do the sentence only if he gets into trouble within the next two years, which is unlikely as he is ill and dying) for abusing them in the 1970s and 1980s. This abuse included being forced to eat their own vomit, to fight each other for the entertainment of other pupils and staff, and to destroy the birthday presents they had received.
Why is it that the courts, when dealing with decrepit old child abusers, show them more mercy than they ever showed the children they mistreated? This is the same scandal as happened with Sister Alphonso (Marie Docherty), a Catholic nun who was convicted of assaulting several children in her care but still walked free from court in 2000 because of her age (only 58!) and illness. Such people, including this man and this one, should be sent to jail, and if they die in jail because they got away with it for long enough, so be it.
On Second Life, the 3-D virtual reality, there is an autism museum, outside of which are pictures of autistic children murdered by their own parents/carers. Sentences for parents who kill their own autistic kids are often incredibly light because they are viewed 'sympathetically'. I mean, wouldn't want to kill your own kid if they had autism? Actually, no. But I'd like to see bastards who do get LIFE. And quite a few autistic people feel exactly the same way.
I've never been on Second Life so I wouldn't know. I've not heard of that many parents murdering their autistic children, although I've heard of one or two cases of mothers killing their children and then themselves due to stress and lack of support. (Not just autistic kids though; there was recently a case where a mother killed her severely disabled daughter and herself because her scumbag neighbours were making their lives a misery and the police did sod all.)
I don't know if these kids were autistic anyway. But some people are just cruel and get kicks out of watching kids, or people generally, suffer. It's speculated that the screws who put Zahid Mubarek in a cell with that racist nutter who bludgeoned him to death did so as part of a "gladiators" game where they put incompatible prisoners together to watch the fireworks. And remember the women who got two toddlers to fight each other and video'ed it?