Abuse of the law for an autistic boy??
May 20th, 2010 | 
Author: Things like this make me SO angry! I received this message today (Thursday May 20, 2010) from an acquaintance, concerning an autistic boy:
A mom I know has a 9 year old son with Autism. He had a melt down today at school and threw a chair. School staff called the police. They are not charging him with anything but they have taken him, for a week to 10 days, to our juvenile detention home. They have denied the mother permission to talk to her son, or see him, and they refuse to release him to the center where he was at before that is for mental illness and issues like these. They have told her that she has a short period of time (something like 3 hours) to get them his meds or they won’t accept them or give them to him. I can’t imagine that this is even legal but I do not know the specific juvenile laws regarding this in Kansas.
Peggy, do you have, or know of, any resources that could help her that knows this area of expertise? She wants the child moved to the facility where he can get help, and she wants to be able to visit to calm him. Please let me know if you know of anyone who can help.
Thank You!
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I will say that I advised her to start with calls to the police chief and if that doesn’t produce a solution, then work her way up through the mayor, district attorney, on up to the governor, and beyond, if she has to!
This is an outrageous abuse of the law IMO. And I will go further and state that I feel this is discrimination toward an autistic child. To deny him his meds if mom can’t get them there within 3 hours? No friggin way. I can’t even imagine the trauma that this little boy is experiencing, nor the fear in this mother’s heart.
I will post updates as they become available to me. The friend who contacted me about this is a friend of this mother, so I should know something soon.
Please feel free to comment. If you have any advice, that is welcome as well.