{"id":3366,"date":"2012-12-22T09:29:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2012-12-22T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T14:30:32","slug":"caught-on-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/simplelife\/2012\/12\/caught-on-tape.html","title":{"rendered":"Caught on tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialgathering.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/22\/caught-on-tape\/wrist-radio\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/specialgathering.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/wrist-radio.jpg\" alt=\"wrist radio\" width=\"106\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>This is a comment I received from a reader. \u00a0I thought this was well worth our review.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Autistic people can be some of the most vulnerable dependent adults in the universe. Mainly, because they are at the mercy of others who care for them and can take advantage of them by blaming abuse on the autistic person themselves. You have to be a seriously sadistic, cruel coward to prey upon defenseless, non verbal, severely-autistic people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/specialgathering.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/22\/caught-on-tape\/on-iphone\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/specialgathering.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/on-iphone.jpg\" alt=\"on iphone\" width=\"245\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>There is an epidemic of trusted caregivers from school personnel to home health workers who are being CAUGHT on tape ABUSING autistic people. What are YOU doing about this? Why aren&#8217;t more people addressing this hidden violence towards our autistic children?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/video\/2012\/09\/27\/caught-tape-autistic-man-allegedly-abused-caregivers\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/video\/2012\/09\/27\/caught-tape-autistic-man-allegedly-abused-caregivers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These caregivers better get the maximum sentence! http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/iwidk.com\/2012\/09\/21\/horrible-caregivers-caught-on-video-beating-autistic-man-hundreds-of-times-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">iwidk.com\/2012\/09\/21\/horrible-caregivers-caught-on-video-beating-autistic-man-hundreds-of-times-video\/<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a comment I received from a reader. \u00a0I thought this was well worth our review. Autistic people can be some of the most vulnerable dependent adults in the universe. 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