LA man faces criminal charges for slapping autistic boy, 10, who damaged hood ornament of his $146,000 Mercedes S-Class

A California man has been deed pinch criminal charges aft he slapped an autistic kid successful wide daylight aft nan boy allegedly damaged nan the emblem connected his $146,000 Mercedes-Benz.

Scott Sakajian, of Sun Valley, was caught connected camera committing nan bad enactment against 10-year-old Alfredo Morales successful Pacoima connected July 1.

The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office has now charged Sakajian pinch willful cruelty to a kid and artillery connected a person.

In nan original clip, captured connected a cellphone, 10-year-old Alfredo's Spanish-speaking sister tells nan sunglass-clad driver 'sorry, [my brother] is autistic. He has typical needs.'

The man, not swayed, proceeds to move towards nan siblings, arsenic nan female is seen trying to simultaneously calm nan boy and plead his case.

Within seconds, nan man is opinionated complete nan two, and quickly cocks his manus backmost to deed him. He strikes nan boy's look pinch an unfastened palm, earlier sternly pointing his digit astatine nan now-cowering youngster.

He past walks disconnected and returns to his car, thorax puffed and hands astatine his sides.

A sound is past heard shouting, successful English, 'What nan f**k's incorrect pinch you?', aft which nan man doubles backmost - this clip to study nan damage.

He grabs astatine nan almost-dismembered ornament earlier again heading to nan S-Class's driver's broadside doorway successful evident disgust, aft which much onlookers outcry for personification to intervene.

'No, extremity him!' a female sound is heard shouting arsenic he opens nan doorway fresh to thrust off. He appears to chide different onlooker earlier taking his seat.

The man past starts nan car and speeds away, but not earlier nan personification recording  filmed his licence plate.

They besides shared a still of nan man's somewhat bent Mercedes insignia, which appeared to beryllium nan only harm done to nan costly car.

The boy's father, Miguel Morales, revealed to KTLA nan boy has autism, and regularly touches objects astir him to research his surroundings.

The harm would costs astir $500 to fix. The car itself costs conscionable northbound of $146,000, and was purchased conscionable complete a twelvemonth agone from a dealership successful Southern California, a conveyance history study shows.

Since nan incident, a fundraiser was organized to support nan family of Morales, who are reportedly without a home, aft nan begetter was fto spell of his occupation astatine a restaurant. 

'[Alfredo] has terrible Autism and his family is successful hopeless request of help,' wrote nan organizers. 

'Any thief would beryllium greatly appreciated by them. They are presently bum and immoderate thief will hopefully thief them get into immoderate housing.' 

The GoFundMe has raised $93,200 of its $10,000 goal.

Morales' family is presently surviving retired of a truck, KTLA reported. Alfredo and his siblings return nan aforesaid way each time to get nan family's groceries. 

A man named Alex Manzo, a complete stranger, is credited pinch launching nan Gofundme aft seeing their plight connected societal media.

'I don't cognize nan family [personally],' Manzo said. 'I conscionable saw [their story] connected Instagram and it sewage america mad.' 

'They request a batch of resources that tin thief retired truthful everything is adjuvant and we're here. We person each nan emotion for nan family. They gave america that spot and we're going to proceed to springiness it each back.'