Showing posts with label mentally disabled. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mentally disabled. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Murder of Mental Health Caring

… "There is something very wrong with a country that has no qualms about spending tens of millions and more for Libya and other wars, and that so nonchalantly defends austerity measures that cut vital services to its own weak and needy." ...

by Carol Smaldino

…” My intent is not to scapegoat one state or one department despite my shared anger and grief” …

… "We are all responsible for caring, and for the lack of caring for some over others …”

…” So many of us have been watching our nation detach from the caring we speak about through anthems and promises and dreams. The American Dream was to include everyone …”
Caregivingly Yours, Patrick Leer 
web site: caregivinglyyours.com  

Friday, February 12, 2010

'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman

No horror writer could even write much less imagine the following:

A mentally disabled woman was fed vegetable oil, spices, detergent, urine and medications, then forced to write a suicide note, stabbed to death, wrapped in plastic, put in a garbage can and dumped in a school parking lot …

Her head had been shaved, and she had been bound with Christmas decorations and clothing; she also was hit with a towel rack, vacuum cleaner hose and a crutch

Sadly this is not fiction. Five adults and one youth are all charged with criminal homicide and kidnapping, and being held without bond in the Westmoreland County, PA prison.

Jennifer Daugherty had become involved in a community center in Greensburg, PA where she met several people whose names she had mentioned to her family as ‘friends’ - including several whose first names share those of some of the suspects.

Jennifer Daugherty rest in peace.

Pa. family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman

Caregivingly Yours, Patrick Leer
web site: http://caregivinglyyours.com/
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