Behavioral health employee accused of assaulting teen who spit in his face, police say. (this originally appeared on northpennnow.com, Monday, 1/6/2025) A staff member at Foundations Behavioral Health in New Britain Borough has been charged with felony counts of strangulation…
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written by: Nicole Ford originally appeared on 2 care workers accused of assaulting teenager with special needs – WPXI ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Imagine putting your special needs child in a care home to help. That’s just what Andrew Erickson…
written by: Jerry Lambe July 29, 2024 originally posted on www.lawandcrime.com A 33-year-old mother of six in Michigan will spend several decades behind bars for torturing and killing her blind 3-year-old son before stuffing his body inside of a basement freezer. Wayne County Circuit Court…
by Madeline Bartos /April 19, 2024/CBS Pittsburgh A former Beaver County health care worker was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted on federal hate crime charges for allegedly abusing patients with disabilities. Thirty-four-year-old Tyler Smith of…
Story by Rebecca Ellis, originally posted in the Los Angeles Times The two caregivers edged toward the staff bathroom as the sounds of slaps and screams ricocheted across the ranch-style home. The evening of Aug. 25, 2023, had already been…
Article by Claudia Lauer, originally published in https://apnews.com/ The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and sexually assaulted in a Starbucks bathroom and a nearby empty building filed a…
Article by Angela Couloumbis, originally published in spotlight.org This story first appeared in The Investigator, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring the best investigative and accountability journalism from across Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — With little fanfare, Gov. Josh Shapiro in…
Article by Chris Egusar, originally published in kqed.org Katrina Turner’s eyes lit up when her father, Pat Turner, and his fiancée, Elaine Sheffer, walked through the door of the beige stucco house in the Sacramento County community of Fair Oaks,…
Article by Jared Weaver, originally published in abc27.com A caretaker in Pennsylvania ended up causing the death of a patient after they did not renew their medication, according to a news release from the Attorney General’s Office.