PRINTABLE PAGE Parents Charged in Retarded Man’s Death From Starvation Originally published by The Associated Press, April 10, 2002 FOLEY, Ala. (AP) — A couple was charged with murdering the woman’s 39- year-old mentally handicapped son, who authorities said was…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Ethics and Orphans: The ‘Monster Study’ By Jim DyerOriginally published in The San Jose Mercury News, June 7, 2001Part 1 of 2 The package came in the twilight of Mary Tudor Jacobs’ life. She stood in the doorway…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Disabled-Abuse Complaints High In State By Bill Snyder, Staff WriterOriginally published in The Tennessean, August 21, 2001 A federal health official said she has received more complaints from Tennessee about people with mental retardation being abused or neglected…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Police Unravel Tale of Salisbury Family’s Abuse Wife, children kept in club, storefront By Farah StockmanOriginally published in The Boston Globe, June 18, 2001 SALISBURY — Patrick McMullen—high school dropout, father of six, salesman of used odds and…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Police Eyeing Infant’s Death Was a son of man held in abuse case By Caroline Louise Cole, Globe CorrespondentOriginally published in The Boston Globe, June 23, 2001 The arrest of a Salisbury man earlier this month on charges…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Shelter Doesn’t Have to Release Client’s Address, Judge Says Originally published in The Columbus Dispatch, November 27, 2001 ATHENS, Ohio — Reversing an earlier decision, an Athens County judge quashed a sheriff’s subpoena seeking client information from a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Domestic Violence Law Set for Renewal By Somini SenguptaOriginally published by The New York Times, June 11, 2001 ALBANY, June 7 — In 1994, soon after Gov. George E. Pataki took office, lawmakers enacted a measure that required…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Pachuca Journal: New Model for the Mentally Ill By Ginger ThompsonOriginally published by The New York Times, May 11, 2001 PACHUCA, Mexico — Although it still hulks like a fortress over the desert landscape, the colonial hacienda that…
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PRINTABLE PAGE For Mentally Ill, Death and Misery By Clifford J. LevyOriginally published in The New York Times, April 28, 2002 Randolph Maddix, a schizophrenic who lived at a private home for the mentally ill in Brooklyn, was often left…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Elder Abuse Victims Suffer in Silence By Scott Fornek, Michael Sneed and Amanda Beeler, Staff Reporters Originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 16, 2001 Ruth Robertson was bilked out of thousands of dollars by a live-in caregiver…