SIBU: A 31-year old man was slapped with a jail term of five years and five strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court on Friday (April 29) for sexually assaulting a disabled 11-year-old girl.
A 14-year-old girl described as severely disabled died at an Upstate hospital earlier this month in what officials are calling "one of the worst cases of child abuse and neglect" they have ever investigated in that county.
We share this story to frame the need for today the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. A day that brings much-needed attention to the plight of those, who of no cause of their own, were born with conditions that move them to the margins of society.