March 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — An non-verbal 4-year-old autistic boy and his father were kicked off a Spirit Airlines return flight after staff refused to honor a doctor’s note verifying that the boy is medically exempt from mask mandates.
The parents of the little boy, Carter, say they have never had issues flying on Spirit, whose staff have reportedly accepted the boy’s medical exemption note on previous flights.
Carter’s mother, Callie Kimball, told THV11 that the medical note states “he’s exempt from wearing masks because whenever he wears a mask he holds his breath or he starts freaking out and he will harm himself.” In this instance, they were kicked off the plane even after showing the Spirit employees the medical note.
Kimball was emotional as she explained, “Being the parent of an autistic kid is really hard and I’ve never in my life experienced that kind of discrimination from someone.”
Moreover, Cameron, the father of the child, says no airport or airline employees indicated any problems until they had already boarded the plane.
“One of the things I was talking with our attorney about was, we went to the front, like the front desk where you have to talk
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