Mother offers children cash to play with autistic son

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD autistic boy is so desperate for a friend his mother is offering to pay children to play with him, she said yesterday.

Little Jack Rumsey, of Thurnby, Leicester, spends each day staring over the fence at the little boy next door, who always has friends round to play.

But he suffers from autism and cannot speak, which makes it difficult for him to socialise.