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Sig Heil, Texas!
"Texas faulted on care of mentally disabled; More than 50 died in state schools" by Jeff Carlton, Associated Press | December 3, 2008
DALLAS - More than 50 mentally disabled patients in the large state-run homes of Texas died in the past year from preventable conditions often related to poor care, a federal investigation revealed yesterday.
Among other findings were that a resident had swallowed latex gloves three times and that a teenage resident with mild mental retardation might have been raped by a male employee.
Overall, the state investigated at least 500 allegations of abuse, neglect, and other mistreatment of residents from July through September, according to the letter sent by the Department of Justice to Governor Rick Perry.
The findings mark the third time in three years that the Justice Department has investigated the Texas facilities, known as state schools. Similar findings of mistreatment at the Lubbock State School came out in 2006; the latest letter details deficiencies in Texas's 12 other state schools....
And they wanted to place all the BEAUTIFUL MORMON CHILDREN into these HELL-HOLES?
In the one-year period ending in September, at least 114 residents died. Although many residents are considered medically fragile, at least 53 deaths were from possibly avoidable conditions such as pneumonia, bowel obstructions or sepsis, according to the letter....
Bowel obstructions? Someone shove something up their asses for fun?
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Jeff Garrison-Tate, an advocate who wants the state schools closed, called the report "devastating and horrifying." He said he is concerned the Legislature will give the facilities more money for staffing instead of increasing resources for community-based group homes.
"These places are not fixable," Garrison-Tate said. "It scares the heck out of me that the Legislature might dump more money into these toilets."
That's where MOST GOVERNMENT $$$ GOES!!!
Investigators singled out the frequent use of physical restraints as an injury factor. In January 2007, a teenage resident died while being held in restraints, the letter said. At a different facility four months later, "staff reportedly broke a resident's shin bone as they slammed him to the ground during a restraint."
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Yeah, I think I'll PASS on the STATE CARE!!
And can you imagine WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED to ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL MORMON CHILDREN had they been subjected to the state love of Texas, huh?
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