Down girl, 5, mocked on Naples beach

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 24 - A five-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome was mocked on a beach in Naples at the weekend, her adoptive father and city welfare councillor said on Facebook Tuesday.
    "A few days ago," said Luca Trapanese, "I was at the seaside with Alba. We were playing on the rides on the beach. A boy came over and, quite bluntly, told me that in his mother's eyes Alba was sick and ugly. I was stunned, I didn't even know what to answer him with, because my daughter isn't ill and her disability does not disqualify her from being a happy girl, as well as being objectively beautiful".
    He went on: "We should start thinking about the common good, starting with the idea that they are ALL our children, despite diversities, and that every one of them is entitled to HAPPINESS and not to top spot for being the best or perfect.
    "That boy, thanks to his mum, represents a part of society that is hostile to diversity, indifferent to pain, focussed on achieving a perfection that does not exist". (ANSA).