“ Last year, one supervisor was accused of four different episodes of physical and psychological abuse of residents within a span of two and a half months; another employee bragged on Facebook about “beating retards.
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That’s from an absolutely devastating New York Times account of abuses taking place within NY state-run institutions for the mentally disabled, from beatings to humiliation to outright killings. And the idea that people in charge would prey upon a defenseless group they were assigned to protect is just… ugh. I wanna go to sleep and not wake up.

-DM

[New York Times]

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