8-Year-Old Stabbed at New York (Long Island) Dave & Busters

[RamboLiberal]

A 23-year-old man allegedly walked up to an 8-year-old boy he'd never seen before playing a video game at a Long Island, N.Y., restaurant and stabbed him five times in the back with a hunting knife, police said.

The boy's father and another man who saw the attack grabbed the suspect before he was able to leave the Westbury, N.Y., Dave and Buster's restaurant, and police said when they arrived the man's hands were covered with blood.

Evan Sachs, of Merrick, N.Y., was arrested and charged with attempted murder in the attack, which occurred Friday at around 8:30 p.m., Nassau County police said.

According to police, Sachs was carrying a hunting knife when he allegedly crept up behind the child and repeatedly plunged the 3.5-inch blade into his back.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/year-boy-stabbed-dave-busters-restaurant/story?id=11841080

[joeybee12]

1. I sure hope that kid is ok...

...I can only imagine the emotional scars he's going to carry around for the rest of his life.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. He's going to make it

but totally agree with you re: the trauma of it all...

From the article:
The boy managed to get to his mother, who was nearly 20 feet away from where he had been playing the video game, and collapsed near at her feet. He suffered from a collapsed lung but is listed in stable condition at Winthorp Hospital on Long Island, officials said.


on edit: Want to add...
Hope the attacker gets years of personal torture in prison

[TwilightGardener]

2. Unbelievable.

[Archae]

4. First that fruitloop school shooter, now this?

Whatever happened to locking up nutcases?

I mean, not all can be like Glenn Beck and get their own TV and radio show.

[WillParkinson]

5. This is a picture of Mr. Sachs

[Ken Burch]

8. ...tweaker, maybe?...

n/t.

[Ken Burch]

6. self-delete.

n/t.

[KurtNYC]

7. dupe

[Odin2005]

9. That's it, LET'S BAN KNIVES!!!

:sarcasm:

[TheMadMonk]

10. Let's treat our mentally ill humanely instead of just giving them their...

...bloody independance and leaving them to fend for themselves.

This means open and locked down institutions.

This means ensuring that they have decent food and shelter without stupid moralistic preconditions. Perhaps we should consider building lockable cinderblock boxes in those places the "voluntary" homeless congregate instead of rousting them into the too few shelter spaces available. Give them what security we can in their chosen independence.

This means spreading the burden to all of society, not intervening only when the family can't (or won't) provide. And yes I WOULD provide full support for afflicted offspring of even "The Donald" or Bill Gates.

[Odin2005]

11. Mental institutions were anything BUT "humane"

There were dens of abuse.

[TheMadMonk]

12. Some most certainly were. A few were not.

And the few that remain for the criminally insane are still very problematical.

But what do you expect when you staff them with the dregs of the medical profession and perpetually short funding?

The problem is not the concept, it's the execution AND a society that hates anything which smacks of welfare. A society which for the most part ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to make any distinction between a person's ability and willingness to provide for themselves.

[Odin2005]

14. Minnesota cares for such people very well through group homes and...

...caregiving staff right in their homes. I'm one of the people that has occasional caregiving staff because of my Asperger's Syndrome. We keep such people, whether they be mentally disabled, have a neurological condition like autism, or are mentally ill IN THE COMMUNITY, not throwing them away into an institution like my severely autistic aunt was for many years.

Speaking of which, last night on the BBC they interviewed Ari Ne'eman, a fellow autistic person and disability rights activist who has now been put on the Presidential Council on Disabillities, the first autistic person to be on the council. he is declared "controversial" by the MSM because he pisses off Eugenicist "cure-bie" groups like Autism Speaks, and he was saying the ecact same things I am in this post.

[TheMadMonk]

15. Which would come under the heading of an open "institution".

Free to come and go, but not expected or required to "do for themselves" over and above their capability to do so.

Nowhere, in what I said, was ANY suggestion that ALL mentally ill people be automattically shut up, away from society as an embarrasment or bother. Simply that such facilities be made available for those that need it for themselves, and for those who truly are too great a danger to society to be allowed to wander about the world unsupervised.

Which if I am not mistaken, would prove a far, far better system than the current one (both your country and to a lesser, but still far too great extent mine) that only provides automatic institutional care to the criminally insane and those who don't have the ability to shift for themselves, NOR the family to drop all burden of care upon that the family can manage (plus a bit more for shitz and gigglez).

What, pray tell me is at all noble about a person, who can barely manage to dress themselves, living on the streets, because they lack the wherewithall to purchase or rent their own accomodation and the abilities to maintain it, but maintain just enough dignity in self and family to refuse to be a burden to that family?

Integrate, rehabilitate, treat and cure. FUCK YEAH! (Point out to me anywhere I said otherwise.) But also accept that at the end of the day there will be those who cannot, (or cannot be permitted) to live in the "outside" world. We need secure facilities. We need secure facilities that do not lump the criminally insane in with those who merely lack the ability to function without 24/7 supervision. And we need facilities that fit into the gap between group homes and those under permanent lock and key.

And finally, we (your country, mine and a hell of a lot of others) need to find the compassion to provide for others, their needs, BEFORE we take for ourselves our wants.

[CTLawGuy]

13. was the kid wearing a red sox hat

or something?