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".
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