A Canadian family is shocked after receiving an anonymous letter from a neighbor urging them to euthanize their severely autistic son. Max Begley is a 13-year-old teen, he was diagnosed with severe autism when he was two. The letter signed from "one pissed off mother" was sent to Begley's grandmother, Brenda Milson of Newcastle, Ontario. Begley spends most summer mornings at his grandmother's house, there he enjoys playing in the backyard. In the letter the neighbor cruelly describes the 13-year-old teen as a "hindrance to everyone" and demands that Begley's family "do the right thing and move or euthanize him."
The letter continues to list its detestable grievances, complaining that while Max plays outside in his grandmother backyard, he makes "DREADFUL" noises, and goes so far as to state that Max "scares the hell out of my normal children." Even more repugnant is her declaration stating, "Crying babies, music and even barking dogs are normal sounds in a residential neighborhood! He is not!"
"I was shaking when I was reading it," Milson told CityNews Toronto. "It's awful words. You don't know why somebody would ever do such a thing."
The one page hate letter continues after the noise complaint and moves into more offensive content. The letter recommends that the family kill their teenage son and donate his body to science, because that's all he is good for, "Personally, they should take whatever non retarded body parts he possesses and donate it to science. What the hell else good is he to anyone!" The neighbor bases her recommendation for euthanizing a 13-year-old child off her supposed hateful theory that no one will love and care for Max, "Who the hell is going to care for him? No employer will ever hire him, no normal girl is going to marry/love him and you are not going to live forever! Do the right thing and move or euthanize him! Either way, we are ALL better off."
Max's mother, Karla Begley, who has multiple sclerosis, told the Toronto Star she started hyperventilating when she read the letter and had to be held by her husband. "It made me sick to my stomach to think that somebody hated my son that much and they didn't even know him," she said. "But they just hated him because he was different. That's the only reason they had to hate him."
She said Max "does make noises, they're usually happy noises. I call it his meditation, he needs an hour of that." Most of the letter complained of Max's allegedly dreadful noises, claiming that many members of the community feel the same way but "don't have the guts to tell you." However, the community has rallied to support Max, who stepped out of his house on Sunday to more than 120 people who began cheering for him.
Durham Regional Police are "taking it very seriously" and investigating whether any laws were broken, said spokesperson Jodi MacLean.
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