( CNN ) -- Canadian authorities are considering criminal charges -- albeit not for a hate crime -- against whomever wrote a stark letter to an Ontario family urging them to either `` move or euthanize '' their autistic son . Prosecutors determined that `` despite the hateful language used , '' the content of the letter `` falls below the threshold for a hate crime , '' the Durham Regional Police Service issued a statement Tuesday . `` However , there are other criminal code issues that are being considered , '' police added . The anonymous letter stirred a far-reaching outcry , as well as prompting neighbors to rally around the targeted 13-year-old , Max Begley , since it became public . The letter -- signed `` one pissed off mother '' -- castigates Begley 's family for what they describe as the `` nuisance '' the teen poses . `` That noise he makes when he is outside is DREADFUL ! Its ( sic ) scares the hell out of my normal children ! ! ! ! ! '' the letter states . `` They should take whatever non retarded body parts he possesses and donate it to science . '' The writer tells the family to `` go live in a trailer in the woods with your wild animal kid '' and to do `` the right thing and move or euthanize him ! '' `` Either way we are all better off . '' The message was delivered to Max 's grandmother 's house , about 15 minutes from the Begley home in Oshawa , a town 40 miles from Toronto . The boy 's father , James , explained that he works and has multiple sclerosis , so Max goes to his grandmother 's three to four times a week . `` If someone is sick enough to not only have those thoughts , but to write those thoughts out and then to mail them '' James Begley said , then `` they should be considered dangerous . We are all concerned . '' The letter writer has not been identified by authorities , and police have asked people to give them any information on the case . As to Max , who is going into the eighth grade this year , his dad said he is not aware exactly of what has happened . `` But he sure is getting a kick out of all of the attention . ''
A letter delivered to an Ontario woman 's house calls her husband a ` ` nuisance '' It urges his family to do ` ` the right thing and move or euthanize him ! '' Police say they are considering criminal charges against the letter writer . But ` ` despite the hateful language , '' they say , the letter do n't qualify as a hate crime .