'I CAN’T CONTROL HIM’
Mum who has CHAINED UP her autistic son for 13 years releases desperate video begging for help caring for him
Marisa Padilha, 47, from Brazil has kept Andre locked-up since he became more violent as a teenager
THE distraught mum of a 28-year-old autistic man has released a disturbing video of him chained up in a harrowing cry for help.
Desperate Marisa Padilha, 47, says her son Andre harms himself if he is tied down.
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Andre has been kept in chains for 13 years since he became more violent as a teenager, she says.
She says his behaviour suddenly changed aged 10 and that medicine and therapy prescribed after autism was diagnosed haven't helped.
Marisa, who lives in the city of Fernandopolis, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, says she thinks the diagnosis is either inaccurate or incomplete.
And now she has decided to release footage of her son in a bid to get the treatment he needs.
She said: "He takes some pills per day and even then he keeps beating himself, biting himself and shouting a lot.
"He must have a bigger problem that has not been diagnosed."
In the video she recorded, she says she cannot stand to see her son chained and asks for help from medical professionals.
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Andre says in the film: "He beat himself, he attacked himself... I cannot stand living in this situation, to see the kid chained day and night.
"Every kind of help is welcome for our family, but I am currently looking for a specialist to make a specific examination but we cannot afford the cost."
She also said Andre is not violent with other people, only with himself.
Marisa claimed that she had to quit her job to take care of her son when he was 10 years old.
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Andre was hospitalised and started to take medicine but the reaction was not what doctors expected.
She says of her decision to chain him aged 15: "I could not control him. It was day and night to keep an eye over him in order to stop him hurting himself.
"Then I started to use the chain."
The city council of Fernandopolis said in a press statement that the kid had been visited by social services for years.
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It said a judge had ruled that, because of his aggressive behaviour, Andre should be cared for in his home while receiving support from psychologists.
Andre gets monthly visits to give him medicine, evaluate his vital signs and test his mental situation, said the council.
He is also receiving medical visits when needed.
But the statement admitted that Andre was not responding well to drugs intended
to curb his aggression.
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