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Mall Santa Offers Autistic Boys a Jail Cell for Christmas

Submitted by Landon Bryce on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 08:00
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A man playing Santa at the Logan Hyperdome was unhappy to see the t-shirt Tammy Sleeth's son Cameron was wearing when he arrived for a visit with his mother and brother.  The shirt says, "Think before you judge, I have autism."  Both Cameron and his brother Liam have types of autism.

Santa's reponse?

"The boys went up to Santa, my six-year-old was so excited to see Santa and he was doing a little dance in front of Santa, I thought it was cute, he was happy," she said.

"Then Santa looked at Cameron's shirt and looked at me and said 'has he had his medication tonight?' and I said 'excuse me?'. I was just disgusted."

It gets worse:
 

"They started saying what they wanted and then about two or three seconds later he said to them 'what about a jail cell?'," she said.

"After he said that I thought I didn't hear right and then he said it again, 'do you want a jail cell?'

"My six-year-old responded, 'jail cell' and I was mortified, I thought how dare you, he's not playing up, he's not being naughty."

The man is no longer employed at the shopping center.
 
Ho ho ho.