'I am a Bully' Sign: Judge Orders Man To Wear Sign in Public
An Ohio man who picked on disabled children was ordered by a judge to wear a sign that indicates him as a bully and stand on a street corner this weekend.
Next door neighbor, Mike Prugh, says the 62-year-old Edmond Aviv has harassed his family for 15 years.
Prugh says Aviv has regularly thrown dog feces on his son's car, spit on the family and used a racial slur against them as well.
Aviv's sign will have big letters that the judge said must be readable from 25 feet away. The sign will read "I AM A BULLY! I pick on children that are disabled, and I am intolerant of those that are different from myself. My actions do not reflect an appreciation for the diverse South Euclid (Ohio) community that I live in."
The Prugh family has two adult adopted black children with disabilities, a husband with dementia, and a paralyzed son, according to the Plain Dealer of Cleveland.
Most recently, Aviv complained of the smell coming from a vent in the Prugh house when they were doing their laundry. He hooked up kerosene with a fan and blew it on the Prugh's house.
"I am very concerned for the safety of our family," Sandra Prugh wrote in a letter to the court for Aviv's sentencing.
Judge Gayle Williams-Byers wanted all of this harassment to stop after seeing Aviv in court five times over the past few years, so she made the decision to make him wear the sign Sunday.
"I would hope that what's been achieved here is finally the modicum of justice that they had been hoping for for quite some time," said Williams-Byers.
In addition to wearing the sign, Aviv will have a 15 day stay in jail, he'll need to complete 100 hours of community service, take an anger management course and write an apology letter to the Prughs.