Autistic Jewish teen was attacked and had a swastika carved on his back at Las Vegas high school.
The teen’s distraught mother alerted authorities after her 17-year-old nonverbal son returned home from Clark High School on March 9 with the hate symbol etched on his back, NBC News reported Saturday.
The Israeli-American Council’s (IAC’s) School Watch brought this incident to the FBI’s attention as a potential federal hate crime, after the local school called the attack a case of bullying.
The IAC School Watch aims to “contribute to a safe school environment and reduce incidents of antisemitism, anti-Zionism, national origin discrimination and hate bias,” a spokesperson for the IAC said.
The mom, who said her son’s service dog equipment bag was also tampered with, has pulled her son from the school.
But because the school doesn’t have surveillance cameras in classrooms, locker rooms and bathrooms, the cruel culprits remain unnamed — and unpunished.
On March 9, 2023, the teen returned home from school with his service dog’s equipment bag torn up, and a swastika carved into the skin of his back.
“My son is the only student I know of who wears a Kippah at the school,” the boy’s mother told Jewish news outlet CoLLive.com.
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