A Texas household is outraged after the arrest of 17-year-old Peter Brown, a teen with a psychological incapacity which causes him to have the mindset of a kid. Nevertheless, police aren’t treating him like a child, not to mention a young person, and the household is outraged.
Peter was snatched from his particular training class by Brazosport Unbiased College District police final week for the occasions that occurred on the finish of March. He was jailed and charged for one depend of assault of a public servant aside from a peace officer or decide.
Whereas they had been provided little to no specs as to what he was arrested for, Peter’s mother and father inform ABC 13 they found he could have assaulted a trainer within the midst of a psychological well being disaster.
This concept was additional supported by a Brazosport ISD spokesperson who instructed the DailyMail the Brazoria County grand jury indicted the scholar for “assault of a employees member.” Additionally, the Browns instructed ABC Peter commonly obtained in hassle at college and makes frequent visits to inpatient psychological well being amenities each few months.
Nevertheless, the Browns say all of this is because of his psychological incapacity, which causes him to have the thoughts of a 12- or 13-year-old.
“He’s 17 with a low IQ, and a incapacity not understanding what kind of hassle he’s in, not understanding the place he’s at, not understanding what the decide was telling him,” stated Brandon Brown, Peter’s father, through ABC. “You already know, he simply has that psychological drawback and the medical doctors all the time stated that he’s going to be, you recognize, have violent tendencies. We’ve been engaged on that with him for all of his life.”
Because of this, his mother and father instructed reporters they don’t consider Peter ought to be charged as an grownup. As a result of nature of his fees, the report says Peter’s household have struggled to get data on his case. Peter’s bond was additionally positioned at $100,000, an quantity too excessive for his mother and father to afford, per the report.
The Browns stated that whereas they don’t consider their son ought to go unpunished, they don’t consider their son ought to be handled like an grownup felony – nor ought to he be held behind bars whereas needing his mother and father’ care.
“He’s not a felony in any respect. He don’t know the very first thing about doing something felony,” stated Mr. Brown.