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| 7 year old Joseph Anderson |
By Abena Agyeman-Fisher
Apr 21st 2011
Straight out of the WTF files, 7-year-old student Joseph Anderson (pictured) is traumatized because he was handcuffed at his school, thrown in to an ambulance and then sent to a local hospital for psychiatric evaluation. When Joseph, a special education student who has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, didn't like the color of an egg he was painting, he became upset.
School staff reportedly told him to calm down, but Joseph allegedly jumped on to one of the tables and continued his tantrum. Here, the story gets murky: Joseph says he repeatedly said, "I just want my Mommy," but an unnamed source said the little boy was waving scissors and cursing.
Either way, by the time Joseph's mother, Jessica Anderson, arrived at Queens elementary school P.S. 153 from her job in Manhattan, her son had already been forcibly transported to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she then learned from a nurse that her child had been handcuffed:
"I was crying. I broke down," she said. "They know that my son is [in] special ed. It's like they're trying to get rid of him, and it worked because I'm not sending him back there."
Describing her son's state, Anderson said:
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