Join ECNV virtually on Friday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers.

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We see the same pattern repeating over and over again. A parent/caregiver kills their disabled child. The media portrays these murders as justifiable and inevitable due to the “burden” of having a disabled person in the family. If the parent/caregiver stands trial, they are given sympathy and comparatively lighter sentences, if they are sentenced at all. The victims are disregarded, blamed for their own murder at the hands of the person they should have been able to trust the most, and ultimately forgotten. And then the cycle repeats.

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