A proud mum has said she 'wouldn't change a thing' about her daughter with Downs Syndrome after vile trolls said she should never have been born.
Carer Shannon Wemyss told how she has been bombarded with horrific messages about two-year-old Gracey, suggesting she should have been aborted.
The 25-year-old, who is now pregnant with a second child hit out at the anonymous accounts which seem to have been made just to abuse her family.
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Teams of sick trolls started commenting on her social media accounts after Shannon, who lives in Inverness with Gracey and husband Mikey, announced news of a second child on the way.
She told the Daily Record : "We shared a photo of Gracey on my Instagram and Facebook pages saying she was going to have a little brother soon and that's when this all started.
"We were getting quite excited that it was getting a lot more attention than normal. reaching more than six million people and getting 100,000 likes.
"But as time went on we started to receive a lot more bad messages than good.
"It's not something that's ever happened to us before, we have always had a lot of positive comments so this has come as a real shock.
"It's not even real accounts that are giving the abuse- it's completely random accounts which have just been made with no followers or friends which makes it worse.
"You know it's just these people and that's all they do in a day is just message people such horrible things."
Shannon added that the couple had initially been reporting the accounts but the determined trolls often just made new ones.
She said: "It's both messages and comments and I've actually turned the comments off on Instagram now because it was just every day and I couldn't keep up with deleting them.
"I didn't want to wake up every morning and read such nasty things about my daughter.
"I suppose they must just be completely uneducated about what having a child with special needs is like.
"Most of the things they are saying are completely wrong.
"One for example said yesterday that Gracey should be taken away from us because it's cruel that we have brought her into the world knowing what she has.
"They are saying it is abusive to Gracey that we went ahead with the pregnancy knowing that she was going to be born with Downs and that she doesn't deserve to be here.
"It's hard to believe that anyone would even think that never mind say it.
"My husband Mikey and I had a very different response to it all. He wanted to message them back but we decided there was just no point because that's what they want."
Despite the horrific ordeal, the young family have been inundated with support from the community.
Shannon said that they wouldn't change a thing about Gracey.
She added: "Since Gracey came along she's just been amazing and her syndrome is not something we even think about every day.
"We definitely wouldn't change anything. Even with all the things people say, we don't feel any differently about her.
"She is going to be a big sister in March which we are all very excited about that."
Shannon also hit out at the trolls on Facebook writing: "Nobody deserves to be getting comments and messages like these, especially about a child.
"I’m not going to give any satisfaction by sharing the horrific things they are saying but we know none of it is true.
"Gracey is a happy, joyful and incredibly strong little girl.
"We love sharing her story and her amazing being, thank you for all the lovely messages/comments we get. It definitely outweighs the bad."
