Holden,
I read about this child and I wanted to link his image in the blog. In a way you read my mind. Unfortunately this child will suffer again, again and again. This world is not nice to people with all kinds of disabilities. They have to develop a very tough shell to survive both physically and psychologically. Here there were cases where secondary schools rejected children with disabilities. My late father once mocked my female cousin´s baby who was born with cleft lip. We have a saying in Spanish whose translation is ignorance is bold. He did not know that his condition could be cured with a special surgery.
Here when we talk about someone with disabilities, we say that that person is “especial”, or special. This is the way we dehumanize our fellow human beings.
Stay well.