Post by Logan on Jun 26, 2016 2:15:09 GMT -6
After latest abuse case, Florida moves to close home for disabled
W.H., a disabled man who has difficulty communicating, had a laceration, bruises and abrasions on his right temple, bruises and abrasions on his right shoulder, and a red, scabby injury to his left arm.
Two of his caregivers at the Carlton Palms Educational Center wrote in a report in April that the man had injured himself.
The video told a different story.
In the recording, a caregiver is seen pushing W.H. against a wall, throwing him to the floor, “shoving him into” a corner, choking him, and thrusting his elbow into W.H.’s head, a police report says. While the attack is occurring, police say, another caregiver turns his back to the abuse, deliberately ignoring the assault.
The abuse of the developmentally disabled man has prompted severe action by Florida disability administrators. The state Agency for Persons with Disabilities, or APD, is moving to close Carlton Palms, a chronically troubled facility where a 14-year-old Broward County girl died an agonizing death from dehydration — the result of a severe, but untreated, infection — in July 2013. The girl, Paige Lunsford, and the facility, had been the subject of a lengthy report in the Miami Herald.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/article85592982.html
W.H., a disabled man who has difficulty communicating, had a laceration, bruises and abrasions on his right temple, bruises and abrasions on his right shoulder, and a red, scabby injury to his left arm.
Two of his caregivers at the Carlton Palms Educational Center wrote in a report in April that the man had injured himself.
The video told a different story.
In the recording, a caregiver is seen pushing W.H. against a wall, throwing him to the floor, “shoving him into” a corner, choking him, and thrusting his elbow into W.H.’s head, a police report says. While the attack is occurring, police say, another caregiver turns his back to the abuse, deliberately ignoring the assault.
The abuse of the developmentally disabled man has prompted severe action by Florida disability administrators. The state Agency for Persons with Disabilities, or APD, is moving to close Carlton Palms, a chronically troubled facility where a 14-year-old Broward County girl died an agonizing death from dehydration — the result of a severe, but untreated, infection — in July 2013. The girl, Paige Lunsford, and the facility, had been the subject of a lengthy report in the Miami Herald.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/article85592982.html