Neighbor's offensive sign targets autistic teen

Carrie Heaton does her best to keep watch over her curious and cognitively disabled 13-year-old son without being too confining. Still, the Nephi teen slips out unnoticed on occasion and wanders the neighborhood, sometimes entering and rifling through people's homes, according to police. Neighbors to the south have complained. But Heaton was surprised Wednesday when long-simmering tensions boiled over and her neighbors erected a sign in their front yard warning, "CAUTION, RETARD'S IN AREA." Diagnosed with autism and other disabilities, Heaton's son functions at the level of a 4- or 5-year-old and doesn't "understand what's going on," Heaton said Friday. "He can't read the sign. But everyone else can. This not only affects him, but all the special needs people who live in Nephi, Juab County and Utah."
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