Giray Khan the Brave
Jedi
Hi all,
Just saw this on the BBC News website: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13548222 and felt it was definitely a sign of the times.
Apparently, the 'carers' in a privately owned UK residential hospital called Winterbourne View that specialises in people with learning disabilities and autism, were caught on camera abusing, beating and torturing their patients. The undercover filming went on for 5 weeks so it seems that this abuse wasn't just a one-off, was systematic and had been going on for some time.
What is particularly horrific about all this is that the abused patients tried many times to tell their relatives what was going on but no one listened to them: "She told us, that she had been hit, her hair had been pulled and she'd been kicked - and I said no, this wouldn't happen, they're not allowed," said the patient's mother. If this isn't a perfect illustration of the blind and misplaced trust some people have in institutions I don't know what is. A trust that even supersedes what your son, or daughter is trying so hard to tell you...
Just saw this on the BBC News website: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13548222 and felt it was definitely a sign of the times.
Apparently, the 'carers' in a privately owned UK residential hospital called Winterbourne View that specialises in people with learning disabilities and autism, were caught on camera abusing, beating and torturing their patients. The undercover filming went on for 5 weeks so it seems that this abuse wasn't just a one-off, was systematic and had been going on for some time.
What is particularly horrific about all this is that the abused patients tried many times to tell their relatives what was going on but no one listened to them: "She told us, that she had been hit, her hair had been pulled and she'd been kicked - and I said no, this wouldn't happen, they're not allowed," said the patient's mother. If this isn't a perfect illustration of the blind and misplaced trust some people have in institutions I don't know what is. A trust that even supersedes what your son, or daughter is trying so hard to tell you...
