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In 1970, and this is really awful just to tell you, a young eight-year-old girl named Joy Evans was sent here because she required 24-hour care and her parents had to work and couldn't provide it. Her mother, Betty, said when she was first sent there, she almost immediately started seeing issues happening.

She would find injuries on Joy like chipped teeth to scratches, lacerations, bruises all over her. Get her out. One horrific thing was that Joy's back, she said, was raw because she would be strapped to a rubber sheet and her back was raw from urine burns. Oh. Because they would just leave her there.

She would find injuries on Joy like chipped teeth to scratches, lacerations, bruises all over her. Get her out. One horrific thing was that Joy's back, she said, was raw because she would be strapped to a rubber sheet and her back was raw from urine burns. Oh. Because they would just leave her there.

to lay in it how do you do that to anybody let alone an eight-year-old and she the thing is her parents couldn't get her out of there because sometimes once you would institutionalize someone they like wouldn't give them back to you what yeah and also like they still couldn't do the 24-hour care uh she died there as a as a teenager of aspiration meaning she was fed improperly lying down and choked to death

to lay in it how do you do that to anybody let alone an eight-year-old and she the thing is her parents couldn't get her out of there because sometimes once you would institutionalize someone they like wouldn't give them back to you what yeah and also like they still couldn't do the 24-hour care uh she died there as a as a teenager of aspiration meaning she was fed improperly lying down and choked to death

That's horrific. Yeah. Betty, the mother, wrote in an affidavit, Dogwood, the cottage where Joy lived, was a veritable snake pit. I once witnessed a nurse open the cottage door only to find 80 half-clad screaming women come running to the door. The nurse quickly closed the door.

That's horrific. Yeah. Betty, the mother, wrote in an affidavit, Dogwood, the cottage where Joy lived, was a veritable snake pit. I once witnessed a nurse open the cottage door only to find 80 half-clad screaming women come running to the door. The nurse quickly closed the door.

say nicholas he just said nicholas again that's weird no that's crazy that was like two three weeks ago that was weird did that episode yeah that's really weird so they she just shut the door on like they all came running towards the door to try to get out and she just closed the door and walked away like just like i'm not dealing with that oh my god yeah and a mother later said once committed to forest haven the only way out is to die

say nicholas he just said nicholas again that's weird no that's crazy that was like two three weeks ago that was weird did that episode yeah that's really weird so they she just shut the door on like they all came running towards the door to try to get out and she just closed the door and walked away like just like i'm not dealing with that oh my god yeah and a mother later said once committed to forest haven the only way out is to die

In the mid-70s, this is when the families filed a class action lawsuit against the institution for how they were treating their children and family members. And the lawsuit said Forest Haven, intended as a facility for treatment, education, and training, subjects residents to physical or sexual abuse, provides virtually no treatment, has no training program, and neglects basic medical care.

In the mid-70s, this is when the families filed a class action lawsuit against the institution for how they were treating their children and family members. And the lawsuit said Forest Haven, intended as a facility for treatment, education, and training, subjects residents to physical or sexual abuse, provides virtually no treatment, has no training program, and neglects basic medical care.

To say the least. The Department of Justice got involved and more court cases came in, but things just got worse for a bit. The lawsuit stated at one point, staff members locked dozens of residents, naked except for adult diapers, in rooms stripped of furniture other than wooden benches. Like, why? You have to be, like, an actual monster to do that.

To say the least. The Department of Justice got involved and more court cases came in, but things just got worse for a bit. The lawsuit stated at one point, staff members locked dozens of residents, naked except for adult diapers, in rooms stripped of furniture other than wooden benches. Like, why? You have to be, like, an actual monster to do that.

Like, you literally have to find some kind of something out of that. You do. Like, you really have to be... That's not even being, like... You have to either be entirely detached from humanity, which means you are a monster, or you have to find some kind of enjoyment out of it. Both ends are just the worst kind of person.

Like, you literally have to find some kind of something out of that. You do. Like, you really have to be... That's not even being, like... You have to either be entirely detached from humanity, which means you are a monster, or you have to find some kind of enjoyment out of it. Both ends are just the worst kind of person.

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