An 8-year-old with disabilities does not belong in handcuffs
THE BOY is 8 years old. He stands 3½ feet tall and weighs 52 pounds. He has learning disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorder. Those facts are all a reasonable person needs to know: Handcuffing such a fragile little boy should be unthinkable. Unfortunately, and rather incredibly, neither a Kentucky sheriff’s deputy nor his boss recognized just how repugnant the actions were when shackles were used to punish this and another equally vulnerable young child.
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