Boy with Aspergers beaten by teen gang in Greenock town centre

[AGXStarseed]

(Not written by me. Edited to remove the word 'sufferer')


A BOY with Asperger’s syndrome was subjected to a sickening attack by a group of teenagers in Greenock town centre.

The 11-year-old, pictured, too scared to be identified, was set upon outside Burger King on West Blackhall Street on Saturday at around 6.15pm in front of his younger brother, who also has the learning disability, and a friend.

A group of about a dozen youths began verbally abusing the three boys and when the victim spoke up for himself he was viciously kicked in the leg twice, knocking him to the ground.

He suffered a blow to his head as a result of the fall and also cut his elbow.

The ringleader is said to have been a girl aged 13 or 14 and she was the one who carried out the attack.

The boy said: “They started calling us names then we walked away and they followed us.

“I spoke back to them and then the girl kicked me full force – twice – in the leg and I fell and hurt my head and elbow.

“I’d never seen these people before in my life.”

His furious mum, Gillian Logue, who is originally from Port Glasgow, had only just dropped her son and his sibling off so they could get something to eat when it happened.

When she returned 10 minutes later to collect them she found her son in tears.

Gillian said: “I was trying to give them a wee bit of independence.

“I drove over to pick them up again and found my son standing there crying and was told he had been assaulted by this girl for no reason – her and a group of boys started on them.

“I’m really angry about it.

“It’s a very vicious attack on a vulnerable boy.

“This person needs to be caught before somebody else is hurt.

“Our children should be able to feel safe in our town.”

The girl is described as 13 or 14 with waist-length brown hair and was wearing a dark blue Nike baseball cap, camouflage style jacket, white ripped jeans, and had make-up on.

The incident has been reported to police and officers are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

Sergeant Laura Stewart, of Greenock police, said: “We received an allegation of an assault and we have made enquiries.

“If anyone witnessed it please contact police on 101.”


SOURCE: http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/..._beaten_by_teen_gang_in_Greenock_town_centre/

 

[biblophile]

poor kids, this is why I do not leave the house.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

God damn hyenas.

 

[Sylar]

I thought the headline was bad enough but then you read the story and it turns out he was only 11 too. Sometimes I wish someone like the Punisher was real to get rid of the scum. What is wrong with young people these days? Humanity is dying and society is being flushed down the toilet. It's disgusting.

The sad part is that this story is one of the "good" examples. It was only a few years ago some girl in England was stabbed to death on her bus to college by a stranger for no reason, a year or so before that a father was stabbed to death by youths for no reason while he was walking with his toddler daughter on the way to a hospital to visit his newborn child. Even in the last couple of weeks it was reported on the news that a 14 year old girl was abducted and raped when she was walking to school. How far do people have to push it before we end up with the death penalty again?

Not that that'll happen. I read a story of a young boy who was bullied repeatedly by a gang of teenage girls until it got so bad he snapped and beat them all with a weapon. Of course after that the girls and their families were in the media pushing an image that they were kind people who wouldn't harm a fly and he faced an investigation. These days human rights and the law protect the mindless thugs more than the victim. It's a better result than another suicide due to bullying, I guess.

I'm constantly bothered by the fact I don't leave the house or talk to people but at least I don't have to worry about stuff like this. The worst I ever got was at school when I was pulled to the ground by my bag and kicked repeatedly in the back, side, chest and head by a group of muslim teens and another time when a single muslim teen who punched me in the face and kicked my legs a few times. Both attacks were seemingly due to the fact that I have dark hair. This was when goths and "moshers" were a thing, and not to make this a race/religion issue, but the asian kids didn't like them much and I got lumped in with them because I'm naturally pale and had dark unkempt hair. I recently found out that one of the kids in the same year as me at the same school killed a man and fled to Syria to join ISIS.

I've just realised this turned into quite the rant and went kind of off-topic almost as soon as I started so I'll finish with saying I hate the state of this world sometimes and shut up. /rant.