Man Sentenced To Jail After Teasing Disabled Girl

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An Ohio man faces one month of jail time for teasing and taunting a 1o-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after a video of the incident went viral.
On Nov. 27, Judge John A. Poulos of the Canton Municipal Court sentenced 43-year-old William Bailey to 29 days in jail.
The taunting occurred on Sept. 26, when Tricia Knight and her mother-in-law were waiting for her children's bus to return from school. Knight's three children, including 10-year-old Hope, attend [url="http://www.cantonlocal.org/h.r.walkerelementary_home.aspx"]Walker Elementary[/url] with Bailey's 9-year-old son, Joseph.
What happened next was caught on an iPod camera by Knight's mother-in-law, Marie Prince.
William Bailey "was dragging his leg and patting his arm across his chest to pick his son Joseph up," said Knight. "I asked him to please stop doing this. 'My daughter can see you.' He then told his son to walk like the R-word."

The next day Knight posted the video on her [url="http://www.facebook.com/Justice4Hope"]Facebook[/url] page while Prince uploaded the video they called "Bus Stop Ignorance" to [url="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Al.Dm6Djc7JwDhpbkY7HvAyr9HQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFkNWJ1MDBuBG1pdANCbG9nIEJvZHkEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQmxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMwM2FpM2U5BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDOWUxYzAwOTMtZDc1MC0zMmYwLTkxYjctY2M3YzhhZWI4NGJhBHBzdGNhdANlbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50BHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQ--;_ylv=0/SIG=1202eu9ka/EXP=1355446890/**http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=ij8_hoZRSZY"]YouTube[/url]. Within days, the video went viral.
The Knight family has lived next door to the Baileys for the past two years, and the incident at the bus stop, according to Knight, is the culmination of rising tensions and intimidation against her kids.
In the days that followed the taunting at the bus stop, the Knight family filed a complaint with Canton City prosecutors.

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