The Staten Island institution known as Willowbrook was a residence\nfor the mentally disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 50\u2019s children were sent away to a school where\nparents and family member though was safe. A place that can do something for\nthose with special needs. With the support of family encouraging parents to\nsend their children away, those children were taken to Willowbrook.\nSurprisingly Willowbrook was the worse place to leave a child. No one knew what was going on until reporter\nTV Geraldo Rivera went in with hidden cameras to show the world how horrible\nthose children were being treated. Residence were left to languish, neglected,\nliving in horrible conditions. Over 5000 residence It was a day to day struggle\nfor those children, Fewer than 20% attended school. 600 hundred employees were\nlaid off due to budget cuts. 6 months latter another 200 hundred more employees\nlost their job, it was dropped to 40 residence to 1 aide;2 people took care of\n70 residence. Those children used the same toilet and contracted the same\ndisease. Between 6 months of addition residence suffer from Parasites and\npneumonia. Hepatitis was all around the school, residence suffer from emotional\ntrauma, resulting in unattended care. Due to shortage of staff some children\nhad broken leg, crushed fingers, as stated at that time by the deceased former\npresident John F. Kennedy, that place was a snake pit. The conditions were\nabysmal, the law was protecting the school and preventing others to see what\nwas really going on. Willowbrook smelled\nawful, like filth, infectious disease, feces. Some were misdiagnosed, beating\nwith sticks and key chains. Willowbrook was a disgraced. After Willowbrook was\nshut down those families took care of their disable child they never knew how\nbadly those children were treated. Some parents would checked their bodies for\nmarks. Those children rights were violated, their needs were neglected. This\ncould happen to anybody; those children are first human then disabled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the age of 3 Barnard was missed diagnosed as being mentally\nretarded and was place at Willowbrook. Barnard lived there for 18 years, he\nsuffered from Cerebral palsy. Barnard was physical but not mentally disabled.\nIt was difficult for him to express himself while he stayed at the Willowbrook\nschool. He was beating with sticks, Key chains, kicked his head in the wall. He\nwas abused to make it worse none of his family came to see him. They came to\nsee him every 5 to 10 years. The ethical controversy in this case was children\nwere not protected, they were infected and abused. Barnard was not only\nmistreated he was also misdiagnosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1987, NYC Mayor\nED. KOCH, presented a new program to help removed mentally disturbed people of\nthe street and forced them into psychotic program. Joyce brown was the first\nhomeless person to defeat psychotic treatment program. The ethical controversy\nsurrounding Joyce brown case is the involuntary medically treated. Being\nhomeless doesn\u2019t make someone mentally ill. Joyce was a competent woman to make\nher own decision, she knew her right therefore she defended her autonomy right\nas a patient. Joyce got arrested, her blood was taken without her consent. She\nwas mistreated her rights were violated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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