Videotape Puts Program in Jeopardy (Staffer attacks youth..)

[Anonymous]

Videotape Puts Program in Jeopardy, Staffer attacks youth; foster kids removed from agency, by Nancy Lewis, Youth Today, October 2 2008

It is not very smart to beat up kids on tape. I thought that they have learned something after the Bay Country Boot Camp death.

The link for the video is here

[Che Gookin]

About a month or so before I returned Stateside last year King County news got some state workers on video punching a developmentally disabled resident on film. Last I heard 3 or 4 of them lost their jobs and a couple of them were looking at jail time.

You'd think they'd learn by now that whupping on the detainees is bad news, but I guess that requires brains enough to figure it out to begin with.

[Che Gookin]

The Rainer School one is a bit of a personal blow to me as I have a developmentally disabled cousin who apparently spent time there back in the early 80's. Her adoptive parents took her out of the school and basically taught her everything from wiping her bum to washing her face. An couple of people who have truly made a difference in my cousin's life. (not my cousin by blood but by adoption, not that I care. I consider her more family than some others I'm related to)

Another instance that strikes close to home is one of the developmentally disabled people I worked with prior to my return to China. He spent 25 years in the Ranier School before being transferred to the in home residential care agency I worked at before returning to China.

The stories around the agency about the Ranier school are numerous for the reports of physical and sexual abuse.

Here is a video segment that KIRO news recorded:

http://http://www.kirotv.com/news/14281671/detail.html

I can't tell if the video links down the right hand side show you the attack as my net speed is to slow here in China. If not I'm sure a quick google will turn them up.