Don't give my son an Asbo, he's just got a bit of ODD (that's Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
Police have described him as a ‘one-boy wave of terror’ and even his mother refers to him as the ‘Satan child’.
Sonny Grainger is just 12, but he has already been expelled from three schools and terrorised neighbours on his council estate countless times.
Now he has been named and shamed by magistrates, and told he will be locked up if he continues with his criminal behaviour
But his long- suffering mother insists that he needs medical help rather than custody because he suffers from oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), which causes him to be hostile to authority figures.
Sonny, from the Boothferry estate in Hull, has stolen cars, started fires, assaulted neighbours with bottles, eggs, stones and sticks and even smashed the windows in his own home after being told off for bad behaviour.
He tends to sleep for only two hours a night and has tablets to sedate him in the evening.
When the authorities recently imposed an anti-social behaviour order on him he broke it within two hours and was tagged as a result.
He has been banned from seven streets on the estate, being in a group of at least five, carrying sticks, stones, matches or a cigarette lighter in public and is subjected to a strict curfew.
PC Trevor Needham, the neighbourhood-beat officer, said: ‘Sonny Grainger has caused untold misery for the estate. It is actually unbelievable just how bad this lad was.
‘He has been a one-boy wave of terror and the way he was going about driving cars and setting fires, I honestly believed it was only a matter of time before he killed someone.
‘The boy does know the difference between right and wrong, and this asbo is a last-ditch attempt to change his behaviour.’
Sonny’s jobless single mother Nadine West, 38, who has three other children, said: ‘I have done everything in my power to rein him in, but he just does not listen to me.’
Miss West said she had reported Sonny to the police and carried out frantic late-night searches of the estate with friends and relatives when he disappeared.
She said the pattern of bad behaviour began at the age of seven. Sonny has even been suspended from the special behavioural unit he now attends instead of mainstream school.
She said: ‘The teachers at his school have been involved, social services have, I have been to family therapy, and I have seen educational therapists, child psychiatrists, mental health workers and doctors.
‘I am not saying I have not received help – I just don’t think I have received the right help. I will not give up on him. I love him.
'I want him to get the right help, so people can see the loving, caring.
Reason to leave the UK no. 47.
Maybe i am just a smidgen grumpy after a long night shift picking up similiar types.
Drunk abusive & basically anti social bottoms.
Not there fault.
They have mental health issues.
Well so have i.
I work and i love to be a punch bag.
And i love paying my National insurance to pay for there alcohol & drugs.
Right.
Off to bed to dream of retiring to Hui Hin.
When i can moan about something else.
Margaret, I'm sure you are much more experienced than me about this, just the Joe public's average attitude.
The purpose is to teach him self control and funnel all of that energy into useful military activities. They're really good at it and guarantee he'll become a team player. "Give me the boy and we'll return the man" 
Pete 
Pete 
