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[quote=Anonymous]I hadn't heard of Brendan Depa before now and.....wow. His prison tutor is placing some of the blame for the assault on the para. Excuse me?! The Autism Society put out a statement basically absolving him of all responsibility for what happened.

I have no doubt he and his family were failed many times. Our current systems are not equipped to deal individuals suffering from severe disabilities or/and mental health diagnosis, nor are they equipped to support the families of these individuals. For Depa specifically, everything I've read screams that this is a deeply unstable individual incapable of even the most basic functioning in the real world.

But at the same time, he savagely beat a woman. He deliberately chased her down and assaulted her and then continued to assault her. He apparently knows right from wrong and was determined to be intellectually competent to stand trial. There are consequences.

I don't know what we do with the Brendan Depas of the world. Warehousing people with disabilities was too often inhumanely done. But someone like Brendon Depa, who has violent outbursts when told no or even overhearing someone talk about him, isn't someone who can be functional in society. It's a disservice to him to expect that he'll ever be able to manage day-to-day, and it put plenty of people at risk of physical harm over the years pretending that he wasn't a threat to others.[/quote]

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