On this day, March 1st, disability rights groups from around the world are remembering the lives of disabled people who were killed by their families. Over seventy people with disabilities were killed by family members over the past five years, with at least ten in the last year.
Too often, we are told to sympathize with the victims' killers. Those reporting the deaths seem to forget that the victim was a human being. All lives matter, including those of disabled people.
Please join me in remembering these people. The following is not a complete list.
Lexie Agyepong-Glover, 13
Faryaal Akhter, 2
Zain Akhter, 5
Casey Albury, 17
Caylee Anthony, 2
Karandeep Arora, 18
Angelica Auriemma, 20
Zahra Baker, 10
Leosha Barnett, 18
Charles-Antoine Blais, 6
Benjamin Barnhard, 13
Markea Blakely-Berry, 16
Jeremy Bostick, 11
Gabriel Britt, 6
Scarlett Chen, 4
Johnny Churchi, 13
Julie Cirella, 8
Daniel Corby, 4
James Joseph Cummings Jr., 46
Laura Cummings, 23
Ryan Davies, 12
Christopher DeGroot, 19
Peter Eitzen, 16
Payton Ettinger, 4
Maxwell Eyer, 2
Marcus Fiesel, 4
Jeremy Fraser, 9
Glen Freany, 11
Betty Anne Gagnon, 48
Jared Greenwood, 26
Pamela Camille Hall, 59
Francecca Hardwick, 18
Walter Knox Hildebrand Jr., 20
Naomi Hill, 4
George Hodgkins, 22
Kenneth Holmes, 12
Tom Inglis, 22
Gerren Isgrigg, 6
Chad Jackson, 25
Christian Clay Jenkins, 14
Tony Khor, 15
Daniel Kirby, 4
Ethan Scott Kirby, 3
William Lash III, 12
Tracy Latimer, 12
Daniel Leubner, 13
Jori Lirett, 7
London McCabe, 6
Katie McCarron, 3
Christopher Melton, 18
Jude Mirra, 8
Emily Belle Molin, 85
Noe Nedina Jr., 7 months
Chase Odgen, 13
Pierre Pasquiou, 10
Tiffany Pinckney, 23
Kyla Puhle, 27
Criste Reimer, 47
Rylan Rochester, 6 months
Rohit Singh,7
Ajit Singh-Mahal, 12
Alex Spourdalakalis, 14
Calista Springer, 16
Ulysses Stable, 12
Melissa Stoddard, 11
Shylea Myza Thomas, 9
Lakesha Victor, 10
Shellay Ward, 7
Courtney Wise, 17
Lloyd Yarbrough, 62
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