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We’re trying to keep this as professional as possible, but a big WTF comes to mind after reading this story.

An eight year old girl was arrested on suspicion of battery, handcuffed, and taken to juvenile detention where she was held in custody until her parents picked her up.

The third grader allegedly spit on and inappropriately touched two of her instructors.

The county prosecutor later dropped the charges. Well, at least someone here has good sense and judgement.

It’s not stated whether or not school officials knew the girl had Asperger’s, but if they did, the story makes even less sense.

Besides the fact, that, oh, dunno, she’s only 8 YEARS OLD, why wasn’t her condition taken into account before placing the arrest and placing her in the strange and foreign environment of a detention center that, no doubt, only contributed to whatever unpleasant emotions that made her allegedly commit the “battery” to begin with?

Most eight year old girls don’t “inappropriately touch” adults, but if they do, jail obviously isn’t the place to put them during “time out.”

The parents are suing the Lake Pend Oreille School District and Bonner County for $500,000 in damages.

via seattlepi.com

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In a disruption that may be permanent, the CARE Autism clinic in Texas has shut its doors after a raid by FBI and IRS officials.

The cause of the investigation is unknown.

CARE clinics were known for treating children with autism with alternative therapies that were often frowned upon by doctors because many therapies lacked strong scientific evidence.

However, parents would say they saw improvements in their child’s behavior after sessions at the clinic.

One such therapy used was intravenous chelation, which puts solutions in the body that bind to metals and other substances and removes them.

via statemen.com

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In the first candidate gene study of its kind, scientist have identified 27 genes that play roles either Asperger’s Syndrome and/or autistic traits and/or empathy.

The results from research conducted by Dr Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen from the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge will be published in the July 16 Autism Research journal.

“These 27 genes represent preliminary leads for understanding the genetic bases of AS and related traits, such as empathy, in the general population,” said Dr. Chakrabarti.

Sixty-eight genes were chosen to be studied that were known to play roles in neural growth, social behavior, or sex steroid hormones.

“We chose to look at the genetics of AS because all other genetic studies have focused on classic autism, which can include learning difficulties and language delay,” added Simon Baron-Cohen. “AS is a more ‘pure’ condition because these other factors are absent. These new results represent a significant advance over our previous work in showing that the sex steroid hormones (e.g. testosterone and oestrogen) influence social development and autistic traits.”

The researchers looked at both adults with a formal diagnoses of Asperger’s and adults in the general population who had filled out the Autism Spectrum Quotient and Empathy Quotient.

via sciencedaily.com

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