Parents ‘Stunned’ to See Disabled Daughter’s Feet Duct-Taped After School

I used to volunteer at the Lanterman facility, it is actually a compound in California. In the 3rd ward. Lol. You wouldn't want these dudes running around your neighborhood as productive members of society. With a diagnosis as simple as MR., they were literally trying to rape each other when the lights went off. That place scares me. I've had nightmares.
It's something we need to seriously talk about, and look at as a country. Especially since I heard it was being shut down. It houses hundreds of mentally ill patients, but most of them have a harmless diagnosis that you wouldn't expect to being such vulgar and scary behaviors.
I know we are out of money and running on a debt system, but I like to envision something being down about this issue before they get to the point were they are just cages animals. Perhaps try to correct the behaviors when they are still young enough to work with.
I believe the johnny knoxville movie about the special Olympics was filled at the aforementioned facility, sorry 'compound', so it's not all rotten apples, they just happen to lump all varying degrees of adults with disabilities there.. not sure what my point was. So here's a hug guys.

uh excuse me-
her SHOES were ATTATCHED TO HER FEET via duct tape.
her feet were NOT taped together etc.

definitely get the meaning of this as it could even be something as STUPID AS THE KID constantly removing her shoes to throw them etc.

flame away and feel better.

Next they'll say they want her drugged.

Related to what I highlighted....

We are not talking about the "lightweight" cases here, ....were are talking about MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE.

They used to lock them up for a reason.
...and they were usually good reasons.

Point 2, they look like they are attached to her socks, not feet.

There's more to this, maybe parents wanted her to have cute but easy-to-remove shoes for "school." . Sometimes parents are swayed by looks and not utility.
They probably have a no-shoes policy or different shoes policy at home, most of my students were nicely dressed up for school, made it hard to restroom them, etc.
I hope they all work it out.
I agree with above posters, we need to look at the way we try to deal with special needs and mental needs people. The system currently in place is not logical sometimes.
Many special needs kids are quite dangerous, of course they can't help that they have trouble with self-control mechanisms. Still, others should certainly be protected from injury. BTW, thrown shoes in face are indeed quite common.
<10 yr.

They we're locked up before the advent of Thorazine and slowly released because of the drugs. Mentally ill have very little deviation from "sound" minds when it comes to being dangerous especially with proper treatment.

A lot of people were locked up simply because they couldn't take care of themselves which is a criteria for being admitted into a psych ward. So much to an extent when I was inpatient there was an old lady there who seemed perfectly normal. They put here there because some fucked up family shit where they wanted her money quickly by moving her into a retirement home, because she fell.

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Many years ago I highly suspected my autistic son was
being abused by his public school teacher. I asked for
my son to be transferred to another school. They refused.

I called in the Feds... I knew the Feds would do nothing
more than investigate. But that was enough to scare the
teacher and the school [who was protecting her.]

My son was immediately transferred to much better school.



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do we know if the kid was ok with it? maybe her shoe laces broke and she asked for someone to tape (for her, because she's disabled) her shoes to her feet so she could walk? fucking libtard parents need to calm down. probably yelled at the kid the moment they saw it, without even getting the facts.