Wheelchair Pride is blogging about Cory Miller, the 16 year old with CP in Havana, Illinois who has been attacked three times in the past two years by juveniles who have kicked him in the groin, held his head under hot running water, taken his belongings, fed him a heated white powder and pushed his wheelchair to a park where they assaulted him.
Yet no one has been held accountable for these hate crimes in the small town. Wheelchair Pride has posted a letter by Ruth Burgess Thompson, the the new Executive Director of the Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities in Illinois , to the mayor of Havana. It can be read here. She expresses her outrage at the failure to hold those responsible for these acts accountable, as well as noting the community's rally on Cory's behalf. (see video below)
The description of the attacks against Cory at RightJuris.com shows that these attacks have escalated. In the latest incident, on July 3, 2010, a substance was sprayed into Cory's eyes. His stepmother stated that Cory was spat on and sexually assaulted by the perpetrators, who wore surgical gloves, after they undressed him.
“Five of them took him out of his wheelchair, which they would have had to unbuckle his seat-belt and his feet. The teenage boys picked him up and took him into a bathroom.
They undressed him completely, even took off his shoes and socks.”
A Justice for Cory Miller page has been set up on Facebook. You can join it here.
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