Needless to say, proud dad Scott, from Merseyside, England, was left appalled, having shared the video celebrate Megan’s first birthday.

Speaking to Metro, he said: “My shock went straight to anger. Obviously I wanted to go and find these people.

“But after a few hours of sitting down and thinking, I thought I’m not going to let some idiot make me angry and ruin my baby’s day.

“So I’ve turned it into a positive thing and decided from now on I’m going to educate the uneducated idiots.

“I’m going to share the love and I’ll do that by sharing pictures of Megan.”

One of the comments on the video read: “Kids in Africa are starving and you’re wasting cake on a child too retarded to know what it is.”

Scott, who has five other children, says he’s often heard tales of such abuse from other parents of kids with disabilities.

“We hear it all the time from the mums, it’s heartbreaking,” he continued.

“I don’t understand why people see them differently. I don’t understand it.”

Indeed, Scott’s certainly not alone in that. It boils my blood to think that people who ridicule others because they’re different can get away with it because they’re hiding behind a computer screen.

The simple fact of the matter is that they would never be saying these things if there was genuine risk of retribution, making them as cowardly as they are, frankly, dim-witted.