These stories are filled with reasons why we have to fight for those who can’t or for those who won’t fight.
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In 2006, 28 states reported deaths in residential treatment facilities and 49 states reported having investigated allegations of abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse.
Cornelius Frederick, 16 years old, died in a hospital two days after staff members at Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo, which houses children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, tackled Cornelius and restrained him for 12 minutes, allegedly for throwing a sandwich. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Read more…
16 years old
Taylor began vomiting around Dec. 13 and had an “elevated” heart rate, fever and low blood pressure, and she asked to go to a hospital, according to the review panel’s findings this week. She had pale skin and her stomach became distended. However, Diamond Ranch Academy did not bring her to see a doctor and did not bring a physician to campus to see her. The facility eventually took a blood sample on Dec. 20, but she died that day before lab results were complete, the panel found. Read more…
17 years old
In November 2018, Max, 13, died one day after he was physically restrained by staff members for nearly two hours at Guiding Hands, a private school for students with special needs in El Dorado Hills, California. Max, who had autism, was brought to the ground by staff members and held in a face-down restraint for 105 minutes until he was unconscious after he allegedly spit at a classmate, The Sacramento Bee and other outlets reported. Read more…
13 years old
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These are emails to the senator that were pushed aside 3 times until I CC’d his assemblyman. Even then, it was swept under the rug.