If a Stafford County sobbed jury this month found an attack on a law guilty autistic teen enforcement officer and he recommended 101/2 years in prison, spend a woman in the second row.
It was not the defendant's mother. She would not wines before reaching their car. It was Teresa champion.
Champion sat through the trial for days and couldn't help Parallels draw a 17 year old with autism between the defendant, Reginald "Neli" Latson, 19, and her son James,.
James this might have said, she thought. James could have done. It had fresh bruises on her body, which showed that James, had lost his temper, also up to the violence.
"This is what we live," said champion, of Springfield. "If they go over the edge, there is no retreat."
That affects a person the ability to communicate the cause of autism - a complex developmental disability, and interact with others – remains the subject of heated debate. What is not in dispute the increase in the number of children is found to have the disorder. 1985 Had autism in one of 2,500 people has been diagnosed in the United States now is the rate of one in 110.
Master said parents are acknowledge what she calls the "dark side of Autism" at the beginning of their children's capacity for aggression if they are frustrated, angry, or overexcited. Her son recently taken his attendant and attacked his father at a movie theater. Other parents describe scary episodes of bite, come and beat.
It is not easy, rest of children to talk, champion said. But it is necessary, because many are older and bigger always and crave more independence, leading to private battles becoming public.
During the Latson three days trial nobody disputed that attacked it a morning in may a member of Stafford. The Deputy was bleeding so lavish that responding officers thought he was shot dead had.
But why who has Asperger's syndrome Latson-, a relatively mild form of autism - did and whether he could have stopped themselves played a central role in his defense and deals, the sympathy of the parents in the Washington region and beyond.
"Everyone is"Oh my God, that is my son,"how", the Autism said Ann Gibbons speaks advocacy group. She said the RS calls attention to two key questions: "How do we protect the community, and how we protect the impaired individual?"
She said "And in this case we either do not protect".
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