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Testimonies of learning disabled abuse
March 2010
A new documentary, Sticks and Stones, shows that people with learning disabilities are still targets of violence, harassment or simple indifference
Keith Shortman, who was attacked by a gang of teenagers, in a still from Sticks and Stones.
It was all supposed to be different after the tragedy of Fiona Pilkington, the mother with learning disabilities who killed herself and her disabled daughter after a decade of abuse from teenage yobs. But according to the harrowing testimonies of people in a new documentary, Sticks and Stones, people with learning disabilities are still targets of violence, harassment or simple indifference.
Mark Gould, The Guardian, Wednesday March 3rd 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/mar/03/learning-disabled-abuse-documentary
