Saturday, February 25, 2012

Mardi Gras soul, in action, turns girl's parade nightmare into a dream come true!

Forget what the calendar might have said. On Friday, at least in one part of New Orleans, it was Emily Gras.

Emily Mueller, an 11-year-old north shore girl with autism, was the object of one drunken young man’s abuse during the Krewe of Muses parade on Feb. 16. She was reduced to tears before she could see any of her favorite parade.

Her mother, Amy Mueller, wrote about the experience online on Thursday, detailing the man’s cruel words and thoughtless actions. She wrote that the man came close to setting Emily’s hair on fire with a cigarette and spilling beer on her before calling her a “retard” to his friends and, later, to her face. Emily asked her mother to take her home, saying she never wanted to participate in Mardi Gras again.

On Friday morning, Amy said, she awoke to learn that she and her daughter had become the objects of an online love fest. Full story...

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