Author Topic: Vile letter sent to mother of autistic child (Read 1169 times)

Telesphorus · « **on:** August 19, 2013, 08:03:10 PM »

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/ontario-police-aware-hateful-letter-telling-family-euthanize-171036930.html

Sigismund · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2013, 09:44:00 PM »

I am not easily shocked by human malice, but this did it.

Frances · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2013, 12:18:22 AM »

:sad:I feel more pity for the poor person who sent the letter. It must be horrible to live with such hatred. My guess is that the person is a woman who aborted her handicapped baby. I once received a SIGNED letter from three persons who instructed me to kill myself that the world and I would be better off. All three were miserable. One was married to an abusive man. One was flunking out of school. The third was jealous of academic honours I received.

ggreg · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2013, 07:01:38 AM »

The author clearly didn't write any of the Vatican II docuмents. Of that, we can be certain.

Zeitun · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2013, 07:54:35 AM »

I've been on the receiving end of wicked hatred from family because I had a bigger house, more children, my hair color, blah, blah, blah......

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2013, 08:58:19 AM »

I'll play devil's advocate.

Is there any chance the recipient sent the letter to herself as a publicity stunt?

BTNYC · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2013, 09:16:06 AM »

To quote Chesterton, this puts me "in the mood in which men burned witches."

Pelly · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2013, 02:06:54 PM »

@BTYNC The Witch Mallet considered abortionists as witches.

Charlemagne · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2013, 02:17:25 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

I'll play devil's advocate.

Is there any chance the recipient sent the letter to herself as a publicity stunt?

I can understand how someone might think that, but as the father of a child with autism (and as an autie myself), I can tell you that we receive enough unwanted attention already. Now, if she really did this as a stunt, she's as low as her fictional neighbor.

ClarkSmith · « **Reply #9 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:05:57 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

I'll play devil's advocate.

Is there any chance the recipient sent the letter to herself as a publicity stunt?

Child stars from Hollywood posted the letter indicating they knew the family. What are the odds? It could be a stunt to raise awareness for autism.

The person that wrote the letter is under the impression the child lives in the neighborhood. However, the article states that the child visits grandparents in the summer months. I think a close neighbor would notice a child being picked up. Grandparents are usually older so you probably wouldn't confuse them for being parents. The writer also states she is a mother. Why give that info out? Their can't be that many mothers in the neighborhood. They would know it was you that wrote the letter.

Stubborn · « **Reply #10 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:50:39 PM »

The ignoramus had nothing better to do than write a letter like that? Whoever wrote it will get theirs some day - what you give, you'll receive, bank on it.