After watching Rosa Monkton's programme last night, on families coping not only with severely disabled children, but also with feral hooligans shouting abuse at them, punching them, throwing bricks through their windows and making their lives a misery - unchecked by police or law - can I ask if mumsnetters would join me in outlawing disablity hate crimes?
Just possibly it might stop another case happening like that poor poor Fiona Pilkington's, where she burned herself and her disabled daughter to death in a car rather than continue to face abuse from unparented, ignorant youths who had been making their lives a misery for years. And then again last week, where a mother of a long-bullied special needs teenager died saving his life from a fire, caused by the bullies putting a firework through her door! And they watched as she burned to death!
Now it is happening again with a bunch of kids making Asher Nardone and her family's life a misery in Poole, Dorset. Whoever is "mothering" the children who daily hurl abuse at Asher's terribly disabled child, and his brother, should be stripped of the title mother. She's just babysitting the next generation of ciminals in my book. Please ask politicians and lawmakers to say no to disablity hate crimes, to offer real penalities for them, and to help protect our most vulnerable members of society from those with least humanity.