Deaf, Non-Verbal Teen Stabbed: Neighbor

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Deaf, Non-Verbal Teen Stabbed: Neighbor | NBC Connecticut

State police say they are interviewing two possible suspects related to the stabbing of a 16-year-old disabled boy Tuesday morning.

"He couldn’t scream. He can’t say, 'Help Mommy,' nothing. He can’t talk or hear nothing," said neighbor Barbara Oquendo of Mansfield.

State police said the teen was stabbed multiple times in his own bed inside his apartment at 132 Foster Drive around 9:45 a.m.
"I have no words to explain how I feel. It hurts because I’m a mother. So I know how she must be feeling right now," said Daphne Torres of Mansfield.

The victim's mother told State Police she heard a noise and when she ran to her son's room, she ran into the suspect. He took off running and she found her son with at least two stab wounds.

"The victim was transported by ambulance to Windham Hospital where it's reported he is in serious, but not life threatening condition," said State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.

Neighbors said police dogs tracked one teenage suspect to his apartment, which is just one building over inside the Colonial Townhomes complex.

"He had no right going into somebody else’s house and stabbing someone, especially someone who is mentally disabled. Can’t speak hear, can’t talk, scream. He knew how to pick his victim," Oquendo said.

Neighbors say the suspect has been in trouble with the law before. "I had to call the cops on him a couple months back," Torres said.

State Police Major Crimes detectives spent the entire day gathering evidence inside the apartment and even outside in a nearby dumpster.

Late Tuesday night authorities said they were interviewing additional witnesses, as well as another possible suspect, but released few other details.

 

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"He had no right going into somebody else’s house and stabbing someone, especially someone who is mentally disabled. Can’t speak hear, can’t talk, scream. He knew how to pick his victim," Oquendo said.

I wonder about that quote. The headline says he is deaf and non verbal.

Does the neighbor thinks that makes him mentally disabled or is there more than just deafness that handicaps him?

 

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I wonder about that quote. The headline says he is deaf and non verbal.

Does the neighbor thinks that makes him mentally disabled or is there more than just deafness that handicaps him?

Unfortunately, to most uneducated hearies out there, if you can't talk to have a mental disability. Sad but it's a fact.

 

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Father of falsely accused boy speaks out

Father of falsely accused boy speaks out | WTNH.com Connecticut

Robbin Foster, charged with stabbing her deaf, mute and autistic son 35 times, stood shaken in court on Wednesday telling the judge "I never meant to hurt my son."

In court documents the mother, who is also deaf, told detectives she had been thinking about all the years caring for her disabled child and just wanted the pressure off her shoulders.

At first, Foster pointed the finger at a 15-year-old boy who lived nearby and claimed he stabbed her autistic son who can't hear nor speak. Foster claimed the boy also ripped a necklace off her body.

Many neighbors in the Mansfield apartment complex believed Foster’s story describing the accused 15-year-old boy as troubled.

The police “grabbed my son and immediately put handcuffs on him,” said David Waite.

The teen cooperated with police giving DNA and fingerprints, and that combined with the bloody clothes found back at the mom's apartment cleared the teen.

The father of the wrongfully accused boy told News 8 he is relieved his son's name is cleared. But he expressed anger and disappointment that his neighbors rushed to judgment.

“She wanted to be rid of her problem,” the boy’s father said. “That's the bottom line and she figured she had the perfect child right here to say he was guilty of the fact.”

It turns out the boy she blamed had helped her in the past. “He did laundry for her, cleaned dished for her,” the boy’s father explained. “This is what my boy does and she turned it around.”

In the call telling the man his son was exonerated, he says he heard the woman apologize.

Neither the disabled boy nor his mother has returned to the apartment complex. Robbin Foster is held on $500,000 bond and a protective order keeps her from having any contact with her son.

Foster now faces a mandatory five-year prison sentence. Her injured son remains hospitalized.

The State's Child advocate will investigate whether state caseworkers could have done more to prevent that stabbing.