Dustin Hicks was an autistic youth. A teen. Someone who faced very significant challenges and needed a great deal of support. But someone who needed to be respected and valued as a person.
Dustin Hicks was murdered by his mother. News stories are reporting that he was shot in the head. The exact motives are at present unclear since the mother killed herself shortly afterwards.
A TV station in Atlanta reports the story as Dawsonville mother shoots disabled son, self in possible mercy killing.
No. There is no mercy in murder. Just because someone is disabled doesn’t mean someone can justify or downplay murder.
No. Just no.
Our children are our responsibility, not our property. We do not get to kill our children and downplay it because they are disabled and call it mercy.
I can’t go on.
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By Matt Carey
note: I corrected a mispelling in the…
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