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Yobs pelt disabled lady with flour and eggs Trigger warning sensitive content

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Aeroflotgirl · 30/07/2018 16:42

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/four-teens-arrested-after-yobs-%E2%80%98attack-disabled-woman-with-flour-and-eggs-before-posing-for-snapchat-photo/ar-BBLfpQI?li=BBoPRmx&item=personalization_enabled%3Afalse

This is utterly distressing, as a mother of a child with ASD, and learning difficulties, this could quite easily be my dd in a few years time, and it makes me sick, that there are scum out there that could do that to a vulnerable person.

I believe the yobs have been found and arrested, their parents show no remorse, only the impact of this on their poor boys. No apology to the lady, the apple doesen't fall far from the tree it seems.

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TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 30/07/2018 18:26

I hope their families are very proud.

You've brought up utter scumbags. Good job.

Oldsu · 30/07/2018 18:31

I too was appalled by the mum who was more worried about her sons 16th Birthday party, if it had been my DS his 16th birthday and party would have been cancelled immediately

Pixel99 · 30/07/2018 18:39

Aeroflotgirl - that is terrible. I am not surprised that traumatised you and why you fought for your DD. I hope that he feels humiliation for what he has done (but I doubt it).

ArmySal - I am with you 100% on that

HelenaDove · 30/07/2018 18:41

little shit is still getting his party? no wonder they have turned out the way they have.

Aeroflotgirl · 30/07/2018 18:44

It's awful pixel, and something I would never forget. I can totally get that poor ladies humiliation. Arty,th
Party, what party, they should not be getting one after that, decent parents would have cancelled it and apologized to the poor woman. But they are not decent parents at all.

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tillytoodles1 · 30/07/2018 18:48

My H is disabled with MS, I would make sure that if anyone did that to him, I would'nt rest until they'd been named and humiliated.

Aeroflotgirl · 30/07/2018 18:49

decent parents would never have raise scum like this!

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FemaleHumanAdult · 30/07/2018 18:51

I wonder how much of that woman's courage and hard work went into developing the level of independence that she had up to the point that she was sitting on that park bench. I wonder how much of her family's support, anxiety, love and hard work went in to helping get to that point? I wonder what impact this incident will have on her future ability to feel safe and confident going out on her own to enjoy the park and the community she is part of?

How much have these utter bastards stolen from this woman?

Bombardier25966 · 30/07/2018 18:53

Is anyone really surprised? Disabled people are made to feel like an underclass in this country, a drain on resources, especially those with hidden disabilities. When the government and the gutter press make us out to be scroungers, the scum that commit crimes like this are going to feel justified in their actions.

It's horrible, but it's not isolated and it's only going to get worse.

AbsentmindedWoman · 30/07/2018 18:55

"Is anyone really surprised? Disabled people are made to feel like an underclass in this country, a drain on resources, especially those with hidden disabilities. When the government and the gutter press make us out to be scroungers, the scum that commit crimes like this are going to feel justified in their actions. "

Agree with Bombardier

It's horrific though.

Livinglavidal0ca · 30/07/2018 18:57

Fucking disgusting. No excuse. I think they should be put in prison for hate crime.

BeyondMyThoughts · 30/07/2018 18:57

This is vile, I do applaud the dad of one though who reported his son to the police

AlonsoTigerHeart · 30/07/2018 19:09

Sad fact is public money will be spent protecting them, no punishment will be back to it within a week.
That lady will be traumatised and will get fuck all real help

Aeroflotgirl · 30/07/2018 19:09

That's good Beyond, at last a parent acting in a decent manner, I would most certainly do the same, they would be grounded with no party, no gadgets. Bombadier I agree, my friend who is a young woman of 25 has a mobility scooter, she has severe and complex epilepsy, gastroparisis, Ehlers Danlos syndrome and other disabilities. She tells me that the dirty looks she gets out and about is shocking. Whilst out on her mobility scooter, she encountered a man having a seizure, people walked on by, whilst she tried to help him. She called him an ambulance on her phone.

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Aeroflotgirl · 30/07/2018 19:13

I agree Female, it takes a lot of intervention to help a person with a learning difficulties and disabilities to learn skills for daily living and independence. At dd school, they are using zones of regulation to help her cope with her anxiety, they have been doing this for a few years. She is much better at coping, but if something out of the ordinary goes wrong, she can go from 0-60 in a few seconds flat, forgetting all her coping mechanisms, and resorting to a full blown meltdown.

In this situation poor dd would be screaming due to the flour and eggs in her hair, if they are teasing and provoking her she would be in full meltdown mode. Screaming crying howling.

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BitchQueen90 · 30/07/2018 19:13

If my DS ever behaved like this I'd drag him to the police station myself and I'd encourage them to give him the harshest punishment possible. There are many things I can deal with but this kind of bullying gives me the absolute rage.

SquatBetty · 30/07/2018 19:24

Nasty little cunts, I hope they're shitting themselves now their names are out in the open.

BMW6 · 30/07/2018 19:33

I imagine they (and their families) are totally bricking it. They have been named on local social media and already groups of vigilante are out to get them.
Police protection can only do so much - easy to find people these days even if they move.

PickwickThePlockingDodo · 30/07/2018 19:38

This is vile, I do applaud the dad of one though who reported his son to the police
After he had poured flour and eggs over him apparently.

I don't know how true it is but it's been said one of the little shites has been stabbed since this attack.

How on earth are parents dragging their kids up for them to behave like this? Absolutely disgusting.

BeyondMyThoughts · 30/07/2018 20:23

@PickwickThePlockingDodo oh I didn't know he had done that, I hope it made the boy realise just part of how humiliated that poor woman was and she was probably scared

I don't understand how people think it could be funny to do this to someone, my son is only 7 now but I would sure hope he would never dream of doing this to anyone

Has there been any update on the lady? Do we know she's ok?

ArmySal · 30/07/2018 20:31

Someone wrote on Facebook earlier that the lady had requested that kind hearted people in the area stop going to her house and taking her things as it was causing her further distress. She wanted people to know she was ok though, as well as could be expected.

She has also asked for a proposed go fund me for her to not be set up, she doesn't want any further upset Sad

Deshasafraisy · 30/07/2018 20:34

This is disgusting but living in this country where our government treats disabled people with contempt and as a burden on society I am not surprised. The tories do it so the kids also think it’s acceptable. I have a disabled child. I hate the tories.

DayAtTheRaces · 30/07/2018 20:42

Bring back the Stocks - where they (and other yobs and thugs) can be publically humiliated by having rotten eggs, cabbages, tomatoes etc. thrown at them and being jeered at, just as it was done in Mediaeval times.

Maelstrop · 30/07/2018 20:47

Bring back the birch! Little shits deserve nothing less.

DesignStatement · 30/07/2018 20:48

God help society if they do not get custodial sentences. The parents sound like utter scum too. How quickly they got police protection when other victims of crime cannot even get an officer to turn out half the time.
Grim, seriously grim.