A
thief recently knocked down a fellow young man in a dark alleyway and stole his
phone and wallet and gave him a hard kick for good measure before taking off.
However, once he got home, he peered inside his wallet and never expected to
find that his victim has Asperger’s.
Asperger
syndrome is a form of high-functioning autism. While individuals with
Asperger’s may have higher-than-average IQ scores, they typically display
deficits in social and communication skills. Many people often see them as
naive, according to ASPEN.
After
discovering who his victim really was, he turned himself into the police as he
felt like “scum”. He knew that he had done something wrong but to attack
someone with autism was really, really low. He just knew that he had to do the
right thing.
The
thief was sentenced to two years in prison.
“You
may not have known this young man had Asperger’s, but you certainly knew he was
vulnerable because he was on his own at night, and there were two of you and
only one of him. … I have two boys to consider; not just you, but the boy you
attacked and robbed. The message has to go out that people who do that go to
prison,” Judge Sylvia de Bertodano said at the hearing.
What
do you think? Do you agree that the thief did the right thing by handing
himself in? Should the judge have given him a lower sentence as a result?
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