woensdag 1 juni 2011

Unbelievable Abuse

Four people have been arrested and accused of abusing patients at a residential hospital. It was discovered by BBC Panorama after five weeks of filming undercover. Apparently the abuse was to punish the patients, but even the clinical psychologist says he is shocked by some of the treatment of vulnerable patients. In the past it was brought to light, but they never took action and regret it now. An internal investigation is launched and the records of 580 patients in 56 facilities are being reviewed. They are making sure this will not happen again. 


support worker and patient at Winterbourne View


When reading this I can just think about how this could happen? I mean how can the director of this place not see it. I can not imagine there are people on this earth who can treat others like that, they should have the same treatment and be in jail for the rest of their lives. Perhaps it is to drastic, but what they did is terrible. The patients think they are getting help, but they are not, the opposite, they are being abused and that is horrible. I hope the investigation makes sure that some people will be arrested and I hope that they will make a difference for the future, these patients deserve that too.

1 opmerking:

  1. Unfortunately, you hear this a lot. It's hard to trust someone who actually is there to take care of someone with a disability. I don't think the people who get caught or do this should ever work in the social work area again. When they are able to do terrible things to their clients they themselves are suffering from psychological problems

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