July 23, 2018, Rochester (NY) Democrat &Chronicle: Rochester woman set for mental evaluation following shooting threat at high school https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/07/23/abigail-hernandez-terrorist-threat-sentencing-immigration-customs-enforcement-mental-health/818054002/
A Rochester woman who admitted to making terroristic threats against East High School earlier this year appeared in court Monday to be sentenced, but her attorney requested she go through a mental health evaluation instead. …
In February, Hernandez posted on Facebook and threatened to shoot students at East High School. She was arrested on multiple felony terrorism charges.
The 21-year-old special education student was charged in March with two counts of making a terroristic threat. She was a student at Edison Tech High School at the time and graduated while still incarcerated, last month.
She pleaded guilty to third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, on June 27 in Monroe County Court. …
While Hernandez's parents have offered no specifics about her disability, they say she has special needs and is very dependent on her family.
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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