Missing Boy With Asperger's Spent 11 Days Living in Subway 14
A missing 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome has been found after living in the subway for 11 days. The boy's mother says police were slow to search for the missing child because she's a Mexican immigrant. Police say they did all they could. The boy was found in a Coney Island subway station. He says he rode a few trains, but mostly slept and lived on snacks and water for the 950,400 seconds he was missing.
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Well, why was their nationality even mentioned, if it wasn't relevant? Someone thought that it was relevant enough to mention it in the article, and since the largest two issues that I hear Americans complaining about in a "Mexican" context are illegal immigrants and low-level drug dealers (the high level dealers all of course being American through and through) one can only conclude that the article's authors wanted people to draw the inference that mother and child are illegal immigrant drug dealers. If that's the inference that a foreigner can draw, then I think the woman has a pretty good case for smacking the newspaper with a good solid libel suit ASAP.
That is a good point in her defence, though not a knock-out blow.
Should the mother turn out to be an illegal immigrant drug dealer, I assume that the child will be put back onto the subway to await her release after judicial murder? Or perhaps used as live bait in a NYC-Subway KiddieFukker entrapment programme? Get some use out of him before he gets old enough to be jailed?