Sad to say, I read this story as a terrible example of a tempest in a teapot. To penalize Colman in any way is simply idiotic. If a genetic defect, which cannot be physically transmitted to others, demands penalties then I suspect many of us would be living under that gun. Nonsense... genetic carriers do not transmit the disease except to off-spring and only if the other parent has the same genetic defect!
This idiocy of penalizing this boy is what fear and ignorance achieve. Palo Alto should be ashamed of this result. Perhaps Palo Alto is not as smart a community as it thinks it is.