The Region - News from April 8, 1987

The father of a 5-year-old AIDS victim plans to move his family from their Atascadero home to a more secluded residence following vandalism and a kidnaping attempt. Ryan Thomas’s parents fought a school district ruling that prevented him from going to kindergarten because he has AIDS, which he contracted from a blood transfusion. A court ordered him admitted, but he was expelled six days later when he bit a classmate, and then readmitted when a judge in Los Angeles ruled that the boy was not dangerous. Since then, however, said Robin Thomas, the boy’s father, the family has been harassed by vandals, and two men tried to coax his son into their car. He said he hopes there will be no legal problems at a new school, but “If that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes.”