Three-year-old child with autism kicked off flight after refusing to wear mask

A three-year-old child with autism was allegedly kicked off a flight and subsequently banned by the airline after he refused to wear a mask. Cebastian Lewis, who is non-verbal, was flying with his family home to Chicago with Spirit Airlines when the incident occurred. His mother Zana Shelton said a flight attendant stopped them when they were boarding the aircraft, demanding that Cebastian put on a mask. “I’m like well he’s autistic and we didn’t have this problem coming here,” Shelton said. She explained that “they just put him on the autism spectrum. He has sensory delay and speech delay.” Family members managed to get the face covering on Cebastian when boarding the plane, but he quickly removed it again. “As soon as he sat in the seat he took it right back off,” said Shelton. “So [the flight attendant] was like, ‘he has to get off.’ “Everybody had to deplane and then the police were called.” Spirit Airlines has accused Shelton of swearing at cabin crew and claims the family was uncooperative and refused to get off the flight. Shelton says that, although she cursed, it was because the flight attendant was being “very ignorant”. <br/>