The family have now been forced to move
Shocking footage captured the horrific moment a man shoved an autistic boy into a dustbin as a “joke” before assaulting the boy’s brother, who had come to his aid.
Jordan Scott was captured by doorbell security footage throwing eight-year-old Maverick Bond into a blue recycling bin on August 14 last year. The 24-year-old then faced off against Jason Clemance, Bond’s 19-year-old brother, outside the family’s property in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Clemance was left with cuts and bruises across his face and body, which mum Rachel Clemance photographed.
Earlier this week at Blackburn Magistrates Court, Scott pleaded guilty to assaulting both boys, and it is accepted that he was unaware of Bond’s autism. He was subsequently sentenced to a 12-month community order and 100 hours of unpaid work.
Scott has also been ordered to pay £50 to each victim and also pay a £95 victim surcharge and £120 costs.
“My sons were already suffering because of other things that have happened in their lives, which people in the street knew about, including Jordan Scott,” Rachel Clemance said at the hearing. “So putting my eight-year-old in a bin, who is such a beautiful soul, brought all the past memories back, and he couldn’t understand why someone could do that to a person that wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
She continued to say Scott is a “down-right bully” and has caused her son nightmares. Her eldest son “started getting angry and more depressed following the attack and moved out as soon as Jordan Scott moved back in next door with his girlfriend.”
In retrospect, she wishes she’d brought them up to be fighters, to “defend themselves from men like Jordan Scott.”
Now the family have been forced to move, with Bond refusing to play outside unless his mum is watching.
The mum of three continued: “He is such a loving-natured child, and I’m not just saying that because he’s my son, he would help anyone.
“It kills me every day that this happened to my boys – my children. Now we have such amazing neighbours and live in a lovely area.”
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