Guest guest Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Please forgive me for posting so much about this. Here it is 5 years after the assault on the teenager, and it takes a show in California to put the focus back on the abuse in Texas. We, who have mentally disabled children need to unite in numbers and demand change, or this could happen to our loved ones in the future. Mentally disabled patient abused at state school 12:16 AM CST on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 By BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV A worker admitted beating Hasib Chishty while coming down on drugs. Also Online Byron reports The most expensive schools in Texas may have the least recognizable names, but Texas spends $50 million a year on so-called state schools for mentally disabled people. But some residents may actually be hurt, not helped by the institutions. The possible victims live on the residential campuses of state schools, and the residents aren't always capable of talking about the quality of care they get. For the last four months, News 8 has been looking into one troubling case of abuse. It was a shocking and mysterious injury. Hasib Chishty lay in a coma in a hospital bed. His intestine was ruptured and his abdomen severely bruised. In the last three years, he has undergone four surgeries. More than three years later, neither he nor his family have recovered from what they believe were injuries inflicted by the Denton State School. " I honestly think they should be put behind bars, " said brother Samir Chishty. Chishty, now 32-years-old, has been mentally handicapped his whole life. However, he was physically healthy until his family brought him to the Denton State School in August of 2002 to improve his behavioral and eating skills. Chishty was assigned to a residential unit called 528 D. At the school, Chishty went from being a playful resident to a comatose victim. , a caregiver at the school, has confessed to victimizing Chishty. However, he also blames a culture of negligence and drug use on the job, which said some supervisors condoned. " The employees on that shift did either crack, powder cocaine, marijuana, Oxycontin, hydrocodone, valium...., " he said in sworn taped testimony. was a former drug addict who said he was clean when he began working at Denton State School in 2001. Once he was assigned the night shift, he said he discovered three coworkers were using drugs on duty. He said he soon joined them. " We would each take turns going into the bathroom, and you know, snorting, " he said. This is the environment Chishty entered. Like other clients at state schools, he was a mentally handicapped full grown adult. He was not always gentle and potentially hard to handle. " It's a hard job, " said Elyse , an attorney for Advocacy Inc., which protects the rights of disabled people in Texas. " Nobody says it's not a hard job. " On September 26, the client and the confessed drug addicted caregiver collided. " Most people, they called me fiend because I did all of my share of the drugs within a few minutes, and theirs lasted all day, " said. " And then I was begging them to give me some because I was hurting. " As Chishty and other clients settled in for the evening, was hurting and coming down from a drug high. It was when he was in Chishty's room he snapped. " I almost killed him, " he said. He said he kicked and punched Chishty at least twenty times. When Chishty's mother arrived for her evening visit, she was shocked to find her son in terrible pain. " His hand was icy cold, " said Farhat Chishty. " His skin was really pale. " This was when the Chishty's said they believe a cover-up had begun. First, the school would not admit he was hurt and that night the staff wouldn't wake up the on-call physician. Chishty wasn't transferred to a hospital for more than a day, even though his condition worsened. As Chishty fought for his life from a hospital bed, the school declined to investigate the incident and said he had been injured by a seatbelt in a van. " There was a dramatic change in this patient's condition overnight, and the only explanation that this family is given for many months is that maybe it was a seat belt that caused this abdominal injury, which is clearly preposterous, " said Reddel, the family's attorney. As a result of the beating, Chishty was nearly paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He can't eat or drink, which was two of the few pleasures he ever had. " I could never imagine, " said sister Yusra Chishty. " I couldn't believe it for a long time. " The Department of Aging and Disability Services, which runs the school, won't talk about the case because it's in court. " We're against any kind of abuse and neglect, " said Don , with the department. The department said employees like are tested for drugs when they are hired and later if they are suspected of drug use. DADS abuse cases are investigated by another state agency. In 2004, nearly nine out of ten charges of abuse were determined to be unfounded. 's supervisor was transferred to another department and declined to talk to News 8. However, said in 2002 there was a pattern of patient mistreatment at Denton where caregivers used rubber gloves to abuse patients. " But if you have like rubber gloves on, you can grab, like if they have a hairy back or something, you can grab the hair and you can pretty much grab a great deal of it, " said. According the , metal serving spoons became fearsome weapons used to whack patients on the head. " This is the tip of the iceberg of some of the examples of abuse here, " said on the taped testimony. examined records at the Denton State School for a three month period that included Chishty's case. " The abuse incidents were to me the most serious because those would typically involve an injury, " she said. She found 20 confirmed incidents of neglect, 12 confirmed incidents of abuse and 50 medication errors. " If there were people who were working with the residents and using recreational drugs, I think that would be highly inappropriate, " said. Three years after the incident, the state of Texas no longer maintains Chishty was injured by a seat belt. Just two months ago, his mother got a letter from the state admitting her son had been abused. But the court case over the abuse is not resolved. has been indicted by a Denton County grand jury and charged with reckless bodily injury to a disabled person. As for the Denton State School where the incident occurred, Advocacy Inc, which inspects all state schools, said Denton is one of the best in the state. E-mail bharris@... Print this story Add RSS Feeds Email this story Advertisement Latest News Officer's widow: Don't drink and drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 I read the article and it made me cry. I use to work in a convalescent center, and it isn't classified as a " state school " it is a care facility for physically and mentally disabled adults. I remember only one person that was actually mentally disabled and he had seizures all the time...he was really young..like my age at the time, I was 21....his mother and sister would come visit him often and read to him and play with him...he was aggressive like a child would be...he was nonverbal...his mom moved him to the state hospital and I don't know what happened to him out there..I just know that in reading these articles and knowing how people can be treated that I should speak up about one thing that I think is bad in any long term care facility, rounds are every 2 hours, that is when you check on residents to see if they are wet, have waterl, you know make sure they are okay. Point being that you have 2 nurse aides to around 60 residents, the time you actually can spend with them to get these rounds made every 2 hours is very little. You can't teach them any thing certainly..I know my resident that was mentally disabled wanted lots of attention, but you couldn't give it to him because there wasn't time, and it sucked, but that is how these places are ran. My sister was the Assistant Director of Nurses for one place in Roscoe, Tx that just got closed because the company wasn't making enough money or so they said. So they just moved all 29 residents to a facility in Sweetwater, and my sister said that she had to go to the facility to finish up tranisition paperwork and there were already medication errors on the residents and they were dirty, hair not brushed, not dressed and she said it was awful. She said that at the place she was at that the people were well cared for and now look at what cost cutting gets you, a lower grade care, but this is just how corporations make money, and the fewer people that they have to hire the more money they make, and basically that is what it boils down to. Big business doesn't care about the little people in their homes, they care about their Social Security check that they get the most of every month. So, if you look at it like that you will probably think twice about placing your loved one in one of these places. Sorry for the long rant, but I just felt strongly about this and had to..Happy New years and God bless. Carlson wrote: Please forgive me for posting so much about this. Here it is 5 years after the assault on the teenager, and it takes a show in California to put the focus back on the abuse in Texas. We, who have mentally disabled children need to unite in numbers and demand change, or this could happen to our loved ones in the future. Mentally disabled patient abused at state school 12:16 AM CST on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 By BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV A worker admitted beating Hasib Chishty while coming down on drugs. Also Online Byron reports The most expensive schools in Texas may have the least recognizable names, but Texas spends $50 million a year on so-called state schools for mentally disabled people. But some residents may actually be hurt, not helped by the institutions. The possible victims live on the residential campuses of state schools, and the residents aren't always capable of talking about the quality of care they get. For the last four months, News 8 has been looking into one troubling case of abuse. It was a shocking and mysterious injury. Hasib Chishty lay in a coma in a hospital bed. His intestine was ruptured and his abdomen severely bruised. In the last three years, he has undergone four surgeries. More than three years later, neither he nor his family have recovered from what they believe were injuries inflicted by the Denton State School. " I honestly think they should be put behind bars, " said brother Samir Chishty. Chishty, now 32-years-old, has been mentally handicapped his whole life. However, he was physically healthy until his family brought him to the Denton State School in August of 2002 to improve his behavioral and eating skills. Chishty was assigned to a residential unit called 528 D. At the school, Chishty went from being a playful resident to a comatose victim. , a caregiver at the school, has confessed to victimizing Chishty. However, he also blames a culture of negligence and drug use on the job, which said some supervisors condoned. " The employees on that shift did either crack, powder cocaine, marijuana, Oxycontin, hydrocodone, valium...., " he said in sworn taped testimony. was a former drug addict who said he was clean when he began working at Denton State School in 2001. Once he was assigned the night shift, he said he discovered three coworkers were using drugs on duty. He said he soon joined them. " We would each take turns going into the bathroom, and you know, snorting, " he said. This is the environment Chishty entered. Like other clients at state schools, he was a mentally handicapped full grown adult. He was not always gentle and potentially hard to handle. " It's a hard job, " said Elyse , an attorney for Advocacy Inc., which protects the rights of disabled people in Texas. " Nobody says it's not a hard job. " On September 26, the client and the confessed drug addicted caregiver collided. " Most people, they called me fiend because I did all of my share of the drugs within a few minutes, and theirs lasted all day, " said. " And then I was begging them to give me some because I was hurting. " As Chishty and other clients settled in for the evening, was hurting and coming down from a drug high. It was when he was in Chishty's room he snapped. " I almost killed him, " he said. He said he kicked and punched Chishty at least twenty times. When Chishty's mother arrived for her evening visit, she was shocked to find her son in terrible pain. " His hand was icy cold, " said Farhat Chishty. " His skin was really pale. " This was when the Chishty's said they believe a cover-up had begun. First, the school would not admit he was hurt and that night the staff wouldn't wake up the on-call physician. Chishty wasn't transferred to a hospital for more than a day, even though his condition worsened. As Chishty fought for his life from a hospital bed, the school declined to investigate the incident and said he had been injured by a seatbelt in a van. " There was a dramatic change in this patient's condition overnight, and the only explanation that this family is given for many months is that maybe it was a seat belt that caused this abdominal injury, which is clearly preposterous, " said Reddel, the family's attorney. As a result of the beating, Chishty was nearly paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He can't eat or drink, which was two of the few pleasures he ever had. " I could never imagine, " said sister Yusra Chishty. " I couldn't believe it for a long time. " The Department of Aging and Disability Services, which runs the school, won't talk about the case because it's in court. " We're against any kind of abuse and neglect, " said Don , with the department. The department said employees like are tested for drugs when they are hired and later if they are suspected of drug use. DADS abuse cases are investigated by another state agency. In 2004, nearly nine out of ten charges of abuse were determined to be unfounded. 's supervisor was transferred to another department and declined to talk to News 8. However, said in 2002 there was a pattern of patient mistreatment at Denton where caregivers used rubber gloves to abuse patients. " But if you have like rubber gloves on, you can grab, like if they have a hairy back or something, you can grab the hair and you can pretty much grab a great deal of it, " said. According the , metal serving spoons became fearsome weapons used to whack patients on the head. " This is the tip of the iceberg of some of the examples of abuse here, " said on the taped testimony. examined records at the Denton State School for a three month period that included Chishty's case. " The abuse incidents were to me the most serious because those would typically involve an injury, " she said. She found 20 confirmed incidents of neglect, 12 confirmed incidents of abuse and 50 medication errors. " If there were people who were working with the residents and using recreational drugs, I think that would be highly inappropriate, " said. Three years after the incident, the state of Texas no longer maintains Chishty was injured by a seat belt. Just two months ago, his mother got a letter from the state admitting her son had been abused. But the court case over the abuse is not resolved. has been indicted by a Denton County grand jury and charged with reckless bodily injury to a disabled person. As for the Denton State School where the incident occurred, Advocacy Inc, which inspects all state schools, said Denton is one of the best in the state. E-mail bharris@... 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Guest guest Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 it's also a wake up call for everyone to establish a plan and a fund for the kids futures. once parents are gone and they become state or federal responsibility... Carlson wrote: Please forgive me for posting so much about this. Here it is 5 years after the assault on the teenager, and it takes a show in California to put the focus back on the abuse in Texas. We, who have mentally disabled children need to unite in numbers and demand change, or this could happen to our loved ones in the future. Mentally disabled patient abused at state school 12:16 AM CST on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 By BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV A worker admitted beating Hasib Chishty while coming down on drugs. Also Online Byron reports The most expensive schools in Texas may have the least recognizable names, but Texas spends $50 million a year on so-called state schools for mentally disabled people. But some residents may actually be hurt, not helped by the institutions. The possible victims live on the residential campuses of state schools, and the residents aren't always capable of talking about the quality of care they get. For the last four months, News 8 has been looking into one troubling case of abuse. It was a shocking and mysterious injury. Hasib Chishty lay in a coma in a hospital bed. His intestine was ruptured and his abdomen severely bruised. In the last three years, he has undergone four surgeries. More than three years later, neither he nor his family have recovered from what they believe were injuries inflicted by the Denton State School. " I honestly think they should be put behind bars, " said brother Samir Chishty. Chishty, now 32-years-old, has been mentally handicapped his whole life. However, he was physically healthy until his family brought him to the Denton State School in August of 2002 to improve his behavioral and eating skills. Chishty was assigned to a residential unit called 528 D. At the school, Chishty went from being a playful resident to a comatose victim. , a caregiver at the school, has confessed to victimizing Chishty. However, he also blames a culture of negligence and drug use on the job, which said some supervisors condoned. " The employees on that shift did either crack, powder cocaine, marijuana, Oxycontin, hydrocodone, valium...., " he said in sworn taped testimony. was a former drug addict who said he was clean when he began working at Denton State School in 2001. Once he was assigned the night shift, he said he discovered three coworkers were using drugs on duty. He said he soon joined them. " We would each take turns going into the bathroom, and you know, snorting, " he said. This is the environment Chishty entered. Like other clients at state schools, he was a mentally handicapped full grown adult. He was not always gentle and potentially hard to handle. " It's a hard job, " said Elyse , an attorney for Advocacy Inc., which protects the rights of disabled people in Texas. " Nobody says it's not a hard job. " On September 26, the client and the confessed drug addicted caregiver collided. " Most people, they called me fiend because I did all of my share of the drugs within a few minutes, and theirs lasted all day, " said. " And then I was begging them to give me some because I was hurting. " As Chishty and other clients settled in for the evening, was hurting and coming down from a drug high. It was when he was in Chishty's room he snapped. " I almost killed him, " he said. He said he kicked and punched Chishty at least twenty times. When Chishty's mother arrived for her evening visit, she was shocked to find her son in terrible pain. " His hand was icy cold, " said Farhat Chishty. " His skin was really pale. " This was when the Chishty's said they believe a cover-up had begun. First, the school would not admit he was hurt and that night the staff wouldn't wake up the on-call physician. Chishty wasn't transferred to a hospital for more than a day, even though his condition worsened. As Chishty fought for his life from a hospital bed, the school declined to investigate the incident and said he had been injured by a seatbelt in a van. " There was a dramatic change in this patient's condition overnight, and the only explanation that this family is given for many months is that maybe it was a seat belt that caused this abdominal injury, which is clearly preposterous, " said Reddel, the family's attorney. As a result of the beating, Chishty was nearly paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He can't eat or drink, which was two of the few pleasures he ever had. " I could never imagine, " said sister Yusra Chishty. " I couldn't believe it for a long time. " The Department of Aging and Disability Services, which runs the school, won't talk about the case because it's in court. " We're against any kind of abuse and neglect, " said Don , with the department. The department said employees like are tested for drugs when they are hired and later if they are suspected of drug use. DADS abuse cases are investigated by another state agency. In 2004, nearly nine out of ten charges of abuse were determined to be unfounded. 's supervisor was transferred to another department and declined to talk to News 8. However, said in 2002 there was a pattern of patient mistreatment at Denton where caregivers used rubber gloves to abuse patients. " But if you have like rubber gloves on, you can grab, like if they have a hairy back or something, you can grab the hair and you can pretty much grab a great deal of it, " said. According the , metal serving spoons became fearsome weapons used to whack patients on the head. " This is the tip of the iceberg of some of the examples of abuse here, " said on the taped testimony. examined records at the Denton State School for a three month period that included Chishty's case. " The abuse incidents were to me the most serious because those would typically involve an injury, " she said. She found 20 confirmed incidents of neglect, 12 confirmed incidents of abuse and 50 medication errors. " If there were people who were working with the residents and using recreational drugs, I think that would be highly inappropriate, " said. Three years after the incident, the state of Texas no longer maintains Chishty was injured by a seat belt. Just two months ago, his mother got a letter from the state admitting her son had been abused. But the court case over the abuse is not resolved. has been indicted by a Denton County grand jury and charged with reckless bodily injury to a disabled person. As for the Denton State School where the incident occurred, Advocacy Inc, which inspects all state schools, said Denton is one of the best in the state. E-mail bharris@... Print this story Add RSS Feeds Email this story Advertisement Latest News Officer's widow: Don't drink and drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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