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Disabled toddler subject to horrible hate crime – mum

A YOUNG mum spoke out yesterday about how her two-year-old disabled child has been the victim of “disgusting” hate crime.

Bethan Germon from Swansea said “so many disgusting comments have been made” about her daughter Lydia who has Dandy-Walker syndrome, a congenital brain disease causing her head to swell.

This has included people claiming that she has cancer or that she should have been terminated, Ms Germon told BBC Radio 5 Live.

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