Boy’s mother details plight at home: ‘We’re living in a nightmare’
HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia mother is sharing heartbreaking details about her family’s struggles caring for their nine-year-old son with severe autism who suffers from violently aggressive fits.
“We’re living in a nightmare,” Carly Sutherland, who is using her story to prod governments to do more for families like hers, said Monday.
“I can’t hug him. I can’t touch him. I listen to him scream upstairs and punch holes in the wall all day.”
Sutherland held a press conference at the Nova Scotia legislature in November asking the government to take action, and has now followed up with a letter to Premier Stephen McNeil and other ministers outlining what her life has been like since Callum came home from the IWK Children’s Hospital on Dec. 4.