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Saw the vid on the news, thought it was sickening. The 2 lads should be beaten up badly and tons of wheelchairs dropped on them, damn barstads!
Shellan Proden was struggling Wednesday to comprehend why someone would attack her son in a wheelchair and beat him for several minutes in an assault captured by a transit system surveillance camera halfway around the world.
“I can't believe a human being would do that to someone else,” Proden said Wednesday from her home in Winnipeg Beach, 60 kilometres north of Winnipeg. “It's like a savage.”
Ms. Proden's 35-year-old son, whom she doesn't want identified, was visiting his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia. He was alone and waiting for a train late Tuesday night, according to New South Wales police, when he was approached by two young men who punched him in the face and knocked him from his wheelchair.
Police say the assailants stomped on him and hit him with metal bars before running off with his belongings and wheelchair, only to return later to continue the beating.
The video shows the victim lying on the cramped floor of an elevator, trying in vain to fend off blows and get back into his chair.
He suffered multiple injuries and was waiting for surgery.
“I've been told ... that they'll have to go in and do some draining of the brain. But he's alert, he's talking and whatever,” Ms. Proden said.
The victim's girlfriend, Kristin Sharrock, said she was disgusted by the assault.
“He's been through a lot in his life and he doesn't deserve what's happened,” she said. “I'm sick to my stomach. He came out here for me and he ended up in hospital. And to think that he could have died.”
Two youths, who are 15 and 16, have been arrested and charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, as well as with robbery armed with an offensive weapon causing wounding.
Prior to the attack, the victim had attended a concert by Doc Walker, a country band from Portage La Prairie, Man. — a town west of Winnipeg where the victim had grown up. The band members were acquaintances with the victim, according to their manager, Ron Kitchener.
“The band is certainly saddened by the turn of events and we're still trying to find out more details ourselves,” Mr. Kitchener said.
“The band are aware ... and are obviously concerned about his health.”
While such attacks on people in wheelchairs are rare, they are not unheard of, said a spokesperson with the Council of Canadians With Disabilities, a Winnipeg-based advocacy group.
“We do know that people with disabilities, because of the perception of vulnerability, are often targets,” said Laurie Beachell, the group's national co-ordinator. “The incidence of violence against people with disabilities is actually higher than it is against non-disabled.”
Ms. Beachell pointed to the August 2008 killing of Ronald Wayne Lacey, a paraplegic whose body was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg. Lacey had been robbed and beaten. His wheelchair was found near the shoreline.
The Proden family has already experienced its share of tragedy. The son has been in a wheelchair for 10 years following a snowmobile accident. That same year, another snowmobile accident killed his father.
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Shellan Proden was struggling Wednesday to comprehend why someone would attack her son in a wheelchair and beat him for several minutes in an assault captured by a transit system surveillance camera halfway around the world.
“I can't believe a human being would do that to someone else,” Proden said Wednesday from her home in Winnipeg Beach, 60 kilometres north of Winnipeg. “It's like a savage.”
Ms. Proden's 35-year-old son, whom she doesn't want identified, was visiting his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia. He was alone and waiting for a train late Tuesday night, according to New South Wales police, when he was approached by two young men who punched him in the face and knocked him from his wheelchair.
Police say the assailants stomped on him and hit him with metal bars before running off with his belongings and wheelchair, only to return later to continue the beating.
The video shows the victim lying on the cramped floor of an elevator, trying in vain to fend off blows and get back into his chair.
He suffered multiple injuries and was waiting for surgery.
“I've been told ... that they'll have to go in and do some draining of the brain. But he's alert, he's talking and whatever,” Ms. Proden said.
The victim's girlfriend, Kristin Sharrock, said she was disgusted by the assault.
“He's been through a lot in his life and he doesn't deserve what's happened,” she said. “I'm sick to my stomach. He came out here for me and he ended up in hospital. And to think that he could have died.”
Two youths, who are 15 and 16, have been arrested and charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, as well as with robbery armed with an offensive weapon causing wounding.
Prior to the attack, the victim had attended a concert by Doc Walker, a country band from Portage La Prairie, Man. — a town west of Winnipeg where the victim had grown up. The band members were acquaintances with the victim, according to their manager, Ron Kitchener.
“The band is certainly saddened by the turn of events and we're still trying to find out more details ourselves,” Mr. Kitchener said.
“The band are aware ... and are obviously concerned about his health.”
While such attacks on people in wheelchairs are rare, they are not unheard of, said a spokesperson with the Council of Canadians With Disabilities, a Winnipeg-based advocacy group.
“We do know that people with disabilities, because of the perception of vulnerability, are often targets,” said Laurie Beachell, the group's national co-ordinator. “The incidence of violence against people with disabilities is actually higher than it is against non-disabled.”
Ms. Beachell pointed to the August 2008 killing of Ronald Wayne Lacey, a paraplegic whose body was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg. Lacey had been robbed and beaten. His wheelchair was found near the shoreline.
The Proden family has already experienced its share of tragedy. The son has been in a wheelchair for 10 years following a snowmobile accident. That same year, another snowmobile accident killed his father.
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