"When something like this happens, you do think about the fact they were blind and wonder, but I believe that blindness - either in the child or the counselors - had nothing to do with this. There are many sighted children who also drown." -- Joyce Scanlan, executive director of Blind Inc., who is also blind. Scanlan claims that blindness has nothing to do with the drowing death of a blind child who was swimming with all blind councilors.

I guess if a man with no arms gets into an auto accident, she'd claim "The fact that he had no arms and was steering with his teeth had nothing to do with this. There are plenty of armed people who also get into auto accidents."