Disability and Abuse Newsfeed
Week of May 12 – 18, 2017
Articles Compiled by Jennifer Palmer
Commentary by Nora J. Baladerian, Ph.D.,
Editing and Posting by Thomas F. Coleman
Articles are listed in alphabetical order by state, so you can easily scan through the articles for those within your state or other states in which you have an interest.
This week’s collection of articles has fewer than usual articles on direct abuse. Check the categories below for a guide. The categories are indicated by by type, and the number of the article.
Sexual Assault: 5, 65, 70
Physical Abuse: 6, 14, 72, 76
Verbal Abuse: 2. 4
Neglect: 10, 11
Financial abuse: 4
School-related abuse: 7
Guardianship: 31
Legislation with effect for PWD: 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 83
Good News: 61
ABUSE AND NEGLECT
1.
“Former social
services director arrested for allegedly stealing almost $400k from elderly
residents.” A Minden woman has been arrested for reportedly stealing
approximately $391,000 from residents of a retirement home in Arcadia, reports
the Attorney General's Department of Justice.--- wafb.com, May 22 (Louisiana)
https://is.gd/VB76U7
2.
“Gaston County
teacher accused of bullying autistic student over physical appearance.” A Gaston
County mother claims her autistic son has repeatedly been bullied at school, not
by another student, but by his now former teacher, who she says repeatedly
called him homophobic slurs, and called him useless in front of the class.---
fox46charlotte.com, May 25 (North Carolina)
https://is.gd/4WEQSS
3.
“Suspicious
Detroit group home fire leaves 2 dead.” Authorities say two people have been
found dead following a suspicious fire at Detroit adult group home. freep.com,
May 24 (Michigan)
https://is.gd/o2Uajx
4.
“Dowagiac Middle
School student bullied for disabilities; parents express heartbreak.” A
disabled teen left school last week wearing a mask, telling her parents that she
put it on because she is tired of being called names.--- wndu.com, May 22
(Michigan)
https://is.gd/yx9da8
5. “DeSoto County authorities charge man with sexual battery of vulnerable persons.” DeSoto County authorities have charged a man with two counts of sexual battery of a vulnerable person following a joint investigation with the state Attorney General's office.--- commercialappeal.com, May 21 (Mississippi) https://is.gd/wyEU89
6.
“Man convicted of
assaulting vulnerable people will not get conviction set aside.” A Lincoln man
has asked that an earlier conviction (in York County) of assaulting a vulnerable
person be set aside, so he can go back to playing the organ at his church.---yorknewstimes.com,
March 24 (Nebraska)
https://is.gd/F4l8XM
7.
“Failures in
Paterson special education confirmed.” A state investigation has concluded that
the Paterson school district failed to provide required therapy sessions to
numerous students with disabilities this year.---northjersey.com, May 23 (New
Jersey)
https://is.gd/LnNSOG
8. “Report: Greenwood woman faces charges after mentally handicapped man reports being kicked out.” A Greenwood woman is facing charges after someone found a mentally handicapped man walking around, kicked out of his residence, according to a report.---indexjournal.com, May 24 (South Carolina) https://is.gd/dE3wIh
9.
“Assault charges
dropped against mentally disabled man after video raises questions.” Misdemeanor
assault charges were dropped against an 18-year-old mentally disabled man
Wednesday, a day after the Houston
Chronicle reported that a video appears to challenge allegations he
choked a worker at his group home.--- chron.com, May 25 (Texas)
https://is.gd/gB7AXH
10.“Jury
finds couple guilty in elder abuse case.”
A Bluefield, Va. husband and wife face decades
in prison after a Mercer County jury found them guilty Friday of charges
including abuse and neglect of an incapacitated adult.---
bdtonline.com, May 19 (Virginia)
https://is.gd/Y7K9DA
11.“State
issues violations to group home.” A group home where a resident with autism
entered a neighbor’s home unannounced was found in violation, following a state
investigation released this week. Now the resident at the center of the
investigation is moving out.---journaltimes.com,
May 19 (Wisconsin)
https://is.gd/s3JUSp
12.“Woman
Takes Car From Group Home, Police Say.” A Racine woman was arrested for stealing
a vehicle from Faith Adult Community Family Homes, a group home for seniors.---racinecountyeye.com,
May 21 (Wisconsin)
https://is.gd/tHplcC
13.“State
must do more to help personal care workers, group home residents.” The Journal
Times’ investigation into group homes started after a criminal complaint filed
against several workers at a group home.---journaltimes.com, May 20 (Wisconsin)
https://is.gd/Lci8Af
14.“Cheyenne
man sentenced to probation for injuring vulnerable adult.” Laramie County
District Judge Catherine Rogers went into Brandon W. Beck’s sentencing hearing
Thursday wondering how a plea deal could have been reached for him to have
first-offender probation for breaking a man’s collarbone last year.---
wyomingnews.com, May 20 (Wyoming)
https://is.gd/2mT93j
LAWS AND LEGISLATION
15. “High Court: Judge, not jury, decides intellectual disability.” The Florida Supreme Court has denied death row inmate Sonny Boy Oats Jr.’s request for a jury to determine his intellectual state, saying it is the judge’s
responsibility.--- ocala.com, March 25 (Florida) https://is.gd/DJdFQ6
16.
“Some state group home residents too much for workers and police.” A state
program that is racking up millions of dollars in workers’
compensation claims is also seeing hundreds of state employees getting hurt on
the job and putting community members at risk.--- fox9.com, May 22 (Minnesota)
https://is.gd/RaGYSn
17.
“Trump Budget Guts Medicaid, Disability Programs.” Deep cuts to Medicaid and
other programs that people with disabilities rely on are at the heart of
President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal.--- disabilityscoop.com, May 23
https://is.gd/0BnAF2
18.“Blue
Cross says autism mandate applies to plans covering 160,000 employees.” Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama says a new state mandate to cover autism
therapy will apply to its group insurance plans covering about 160,000 employees
in Alabama, plus some individual plans.--- al.com, May 23 (Alabama)
https://is.gd/mAcdI9
19.“Legal
system’s treatment of mentally ill is criminal.” The walking wounded are all
around us, on the streets of San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Rosa and Santa
Cruz.--- sfchronicle.com, May 25 (California)
https://is.gd/vDaVrg
20.“California
Medicaid Releases Plan For Transitioning Developmental Center Residents To
Managed Care.” On
April 26, 2017, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)
released a draft plan that describes how it intends to transition the provision
of services for Medicaid-eligible developmental center residents to managed care
plans.--- openminds.com, May 21 (California)
https://is.gd/idCOaG
21.“Lawsuit:
VA Contracting Changes Could Cut Jobs for the Blind.” An advocacy group for the
blind on Wednesday sued the Department of Veterans Affairs in federal court,
alleging the agency ignored a long-standing law when it changed contracting
rules that have been used for decades to give jobs to the visually impaired.---nbcconnecticut.com,
May 25 (Connecticut)
https://is.gd/1synG5
22.“DCFS
under fire for quickly closing child abuse investigations.”
llinois Department of Children and Family Services investigators
are overwhelmed by high caseloads and are being pressured to quickly close their
abuse probes, even when they have not performed basic tasks like contacting
police and doctors, according to several experts and lawmakers who spoke Tuesday
at a joint House-Senate hearing in Springfield.--- chicagotribune.com, May 24
(Illinois)
https://is.gd/BFtzsr
23.“Help
Is Here: Human Rights Authority works to improve the lives of disabled persons.”
They look after the rights of the disabled — people who cannot look out for
themselves.---pjstar.com, May 20 (Illinois)
https://is.gd/4uMled
24.“185
citizens sign petition against possible Grand Avenue site home.” A site home for
individuals with developmental disabilities or mental illness, which may go in
at 916 Grand Ave., has a number of neighbors concerned.--- dailygate.com, May 22
(Iowa)
https://is.gd/t4cF3U
25.“Kentucky
can't ignore social services 'time bomb,' experts tell reform panel.” Warning
that the high workload of state social workers "is a time bomb waiting to go
off," Bullitt Family Court Judge Elise Givhan Spainhour said Kentucky can't
ignore the urgent need to better fund social services as it strives to improve
adoption and foster care.--- courier-journal.com, May 23 (Kentucky)
https://is.gd/HO0VXM
26.“Baltimore
public housing plan needs scrutiny, oversight.” The $27 million renovation and
reopening of the city's Allendale public apartment complex was described as "hallelujah" moment by Carol Payne, the Director of the Baltimore
Region for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.---
baltimoresun.com, May 22 (Maryland)
https://is.gd/wwmPpt
27.“Ricketts
signs bills increasing teacher retirement age, changing priority for
developmental disability services.” Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a pair of bills
into law Tuesday that increase the teacher retirement age and change which
groups get priority for developmental disability services.--- omaha.com, May 24
(Nebraska)
https://is.gd/QP68rt
28.“U.S.
government OKs Nebraska's Medicaid waivers for developmental disabilities
services.” Nebraska has gotten good news from the federal government about
services for people with developmental disabilities.---omaha.com, May 25
(Nebraska)
https://is.gd/I7JqtV
29.“Tragedy
sparks entrepreneurs.” Family tragedy 15 years ago spurred two area women to
start a nonprofit agency to help vulnerable adults. That’s when Guardian Angels
Life Services was born.--- hastingstribune.com, May 21 (Nebraska)
https://is.gd/RtA5qI
30.“Under
New Law, Grandparents To Get Priority In Custody Cases Involving Substance
Abuse.” Family court judges will soon be required to give priority to
grandparents in guardianship cases where parents are dealing with substance
abuse issues.---nhpr.org, May 25 (New Hampshire)
https://is.gd/WNmtg0
31.“Plaintiff
in guardianship case wants the judge to step aside.” The daughter of a deceased
Albuquerque author suing a commercial guardian and conservator firm is
questioning the impartiality of the judge in the case, citing in part his
appearance in April with representatives of the guardianship industry at an
Albuquerque Lawyers Club panel discussion.--- abqjournal.com, May 22 (New
Mexico)
https://is.gd/W5787k
32.“News
12 finds school lacks adequate handicapped parking.” Action is being taken after
News 12 revealed that an elementary school in Westchester is failing to provide
adequate handicapped parking.---
hudsonvalley.news12.com, May 24 (New York)
https://is.gd/G3cjOM
33.“Nonprofit
sues Babylon Town over ticketing of adult home.” An Old Bethpage nonprofit is
suing the Town of Babylon and one of its zoning inspectors for violating the
Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act, court documents
show.---newsday.com, May 21 (New York)
https://is.gd/Lci8Af
34.“Disabled
people sue over segregated living, inadequate care in North Carolina.” People
with developmental disabilities are wrongfully segregated in institutions or
face the threat of institutionalization because of budget restrictions and
inattention to their needs, an advocacy group said in a lawsuit filed in state
court Wednesday.---newsobserver.com, May 24 (North Carolina)
https://is.gd/OnUPIF
35.“North
Carolina bill proposes complete makeover of social services.” North Carolina
legislators are seeking to completely overhaul social services, especially the
foster care system.---bladenjournal.com,
May 21 (North Carolina)
https://is.gd/NAM9Y5
36.“WFBMC
researchers say intellectual disability should not prevent kidney transplants
in children.” Dylan Hill has lived a shorter life than most, only 11 years so
far. But he’s already died 19 times, and his parents say, perhaps even more.---
http://myfox8.com,
May 17 (North Carolina)
https://is.gd/f44ekj
37.“Point
of View: New perspectives can help Oklahomans with intellectual, developmental
disabilities.” Social innovation requires that we not only look for new
solutions to problems, but that we also look at the problem through multiple
lenses.---newsok.com,
May 24 (Oklahoma)
https://is.gd/wyyZ7n
38.“Oregon
Governor Signs Laws To Expand Rights For Foster Kids.” Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
signed two bills into law Wednesday securing new rights for foster kids.---
kuow.org, May 17
(Oregon)
https://is.gd/IKE6kL
39.“Researchers
develop new modified toy car designs for children with disabilities.”
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed two new modified toy car
designs for children with disabilities in an effort to encourage them to further
explore, play, and engage in physical and social activities.---news-medical.net,
May 24 (Oregon)
https://is.gd/kScxIj
40.“Judge
finds new legal protection for transgender people.” For the first time, a
federal disability rights law has been interpreted to give legal protection to
transgender people against discrimination. A Pennsylvania judge did so by
giving a narrow reading to a phrase in that law that says it does not apply to
individuals with “gender identity disorders.”--- constitutioncenter.org, May 20
(Pennsylvania)
https://is.gd/SijX6I
41.“Families
worry over federal caps that might hit aid for Pa. children with disabilities.”
“Fork food, buddy,” Beth Myers coaxes her 12-year-old son Wil, who sits on his
bare feet at the breakfast table. “Fork food. Wil, try a fork.”--- post-gazette.com,
May 21 (Pennsylvania)
https://is.gd/z7QfWf
42.“A
bill to aid deaf children needs to be “heard” in the Legislature.”
As we reach the end of a legislative session surrounded by hundreds of bills
that died on the vine, there is one that stands out as worthwhile and urgent: Senate
Bill 354, the Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids bill
(known as “LEAD-K”). ---tribtalk.org, May 22 (Texas)
https://is.gd/1RNcM4
43.“Senate
swaps school funding bill for special education vouchers.” The Texas Senate has
scrapped much of a proposal to revise how the state funds education in place of
a plan to create a school voucher program for children with disabilities.---
chron.com, May 22 (Texas)
https://is.gd/N4RtLW
44.“10K
Texans with disabilities would be impacted by caregiver budget cuts.” As state
lawmakers hash out what will be a tight budget, Texans with intellectual and
developmental disabilities stand to lose a lot when it comes to who takes care
of them.---keyetv.com,
May 19 (Texas)
https://is.gd/HOksiA
IMPROVED SUPPORTS
45.“Let's
enable parents of special-needs kids to set money aside for lifetime care.” My
10-year-old son, Andrew, loves his iPad, McDonald’s cheeseburgers with no
pickles, walks in the woods and Disney’s Pocahontas. Since he was two, my wife
and I have known that he has autism.---thehill.com,
May 23
https://is.gd/g2Dkvh
46.“A.B.L.E.
assistance open to amputees.” Those of you who read this column regularly are
aware that I had a toe amputated in 2015 due to an infection in my right foot. I
admit I mourned the loss for a while. A few weeks ago my mother spoke of a man
she'd met who told her about A.B.L.E. It stands for Amputees Beyond Life's
Expectations.--- nwaonline.com, May 24 (Arkansas)
https://is.gd/9GDIT1
47.“Homeschooling
makes learning personal for some special education students.” Dorothy, of Spring
Hill, Florida, has a 15-year-old son with spina bifida and developmental delays,
and her 13-year-old daughter is, she says, "mildly autistic." Neither was happy
at public school.--- scpr.org, May 22(Florida)
https://is.gd/l1zknu
48.“Could
Divvy be expanded to include people with disabilities?” Chicago should consider
adding adaptive cycles to its bike-share program.--- chicagoreader.com, May 22
(Illinois)
https://is.gd/cn5Wrc
49.“DCFS
director pledges reform in abuse investigations.” Department of Children and
Family Services Director George Sheldon says he’s considering a major change in
the way the agency conducts abuse and neglect investigations.---sj-r.com, May 17
(Illinois)
https://is.gd/GmPvvD
50.“Kansas
education official meets with upset members of deaf, blind communities.” A crowd
gathered Thursday afternoon in Olathe to hear Kansas Education Commissioner
Randy Watson explain why the assistant superintendent for the Kansas
State School for the Deaf was
passed over to become superintendent of that school and the Kansas
State School for the Blind.---kansascity.com, May 25 (Kansas)
https://is.gd/o8Biy0
51.“Tri
County senior says helping his autistic peers “saved” him.”
When Tri County Area Schools started a program to provide support to students
with autism, a middle-schooler volunteered to help.---
thedailynews.cc, May
23 (Michigan)
https://is.gd/g8QuzL
52.“Parents
question use of seclusion rooms for special education students.” For Kellie
Sanders, life is wrapped around Hunter, her 11-year old son who had
a brain stroke when he was born premature. Every day brings its joys--and
struggles.--- fox9.com, May 23 (Minnesota)
https://is.gd/OuqaDH
53.“Blind
homeowner in Nebraska struggles to get tax relief.” A blind man in eastern
Nebraska hasn't received any aid from a state program that helps low-income
homeowners with disabilities keep their homes, despite repeated requests.---newsobserver.com,
May 22 (Nebraska)
https://is.gd/LJfTNd
54.“Trenton
Mayor Eric Jackson’s SUV spotted in handicapped spot at school building.” City
Mayor Eric Jackson does not have a handicapped parking placard. But that did not
stop a driver of his city-issued SUV from parking in a handicapped spot
Wednesday at the Trenton Board of Education building.--- trentonian.com, May 25
(New Jersey)
https://is.gd/fDFDjR
55.“CityViews: City is Trying to Build a Seamless System for Autistic Kids.” Back in the early 2000s, autistic children age 5-21 in New York City and elsewhere who were capable of grade level academic work were educated almost exclusively in segregated classrooms with other autistic children.---citylimits.org, May 22 (New York) https://is.gd/FwlSdZ
56.“Ride-sharing
services leave people with disabilities behind.” During a recent browse of my
Twitter feed, a quotation from Mayor Bill Peduto jumped out at me. ---post-gazette.com,
May 20 (Pennsylvania)
https://is.gd/cisKDH
57.“Firefighters
wrap up Special Needs Awareness Program training.” Chattanooga is implementing a
new program to help first responders better communicate with people with special
needs during emergencies.---newschannel9.com, May 22 (Tennessee)
https://is.gd/PDrFEj
58.“Wheelchair-bound
woman demanding sidewalk ramps in West El Paso neighborhood.” Debra Whitcomb has
lived in her West El Paso home on Escondido Drive for 30 years. She suffers from
a brain disease that has recently forced her to use a wheelchair to get
around.---elpasoproud.com, May 19 (Texas)
https://is.gd/eblGT6
59.“Houston
psychiatric hospital closes after failing federal safety inspection.” HopeBridge
Hospital, an inpatient psychiatric center in southwest Houston, closed this
month after federal officials cited the facility for failing to maintain a safe
environment for mentally ill patients.--- chron.com, May 23 (Texas)
https://is.gd/vEzlIY
60.“County
unveils communication system 'critical' to homelessness plan.” A detailed
breakdown of how Salt Lake County officials plan to implement a "critical"
communication strategy among service providers for people experiencing
homelessness was released for the first time Tuesday.---deseretnews.com, May 23
(Utah)
https://is.gd/mTrTej
61.“First-Ever
U.S. Hospital For Down Syndrome Patients.” The United States will be getting its
first hospital dedicated to helping Down Syndrome patients. On May 18, the
pro-life Jerome
Lejeune Foundation announced
they will be building a second multidisciplinary hospital, modeled after the first Jerome
Lejeune Institute in France. The site is, as of yet, unspecified.---
churchmilitant.com, March 23 (Virginia)
https://is.gd/h0Rz9f
62.“Family
Splits Time Between 2 Cities For Daughter’s Autism Therapy.” Next month WCCO is
Pulling Together for a giant tug-of-war across the Mississippi River. All of
the money raised for the event will go to a local organization that helps family
members with special needs.---
minnesota.cbslocal.com,
May 20 (Wisconsin)
https://is.gd/Z8vYrU
63.“Coping
with autism more of a stretch in rural areas.” If necessity is the mother of
invention, the necessities that come with raising a child with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) are the mother, the father and probably even the grandparents of
invention.--- wiscnews.com, May 23 (Wisconsin)
https://is.gd/cf6bhN
INTERNATIONAL
64.“State
says Stockton rollout "progressing well" despite two recent deaths.” A
second Stockton Centre resident moved to a new group home in a nearby street has
died in hospital, but the government says it is not changing the way it is
handling proceedings.---theherald.com.au, May 26 (Australia)
https://is.gd/VAxQRl
65.“Man
accused of raping ex-partner’s intellectually disabled daughter.” A Townsville
man is on trial after he allegedly went to his ex-partner’s house in the early
hours of the morning and raped her intellectually disabled daughter.---
townsvillebulletin.com.au, May 24 (Australia)
https://is.gd/gipzoN
66.“Judy
and Isabel Stephens shared pub lunch then went missing from Benalla.” A mother
and daughter were last seen eating a quiet lunch at a Victorian country pub
before they disappeared near Benalla. There have been a number of reported
sightings of Isabel and Judy Stephens since they went missing near Benalla on
Sunday, but police yesterday had no firm leads on their whereabouts.---
heraldsun.com.au, May 24 (Australia)
https://is.gd/p18oor
67.“Student
dedicates career to dispelling myths about schizophrenia.” When Leonard Reynen
was diagnosed with schizophrenia, at age 18, he thought his life was over.---
ottawasun.com, May 23 (Canada)
https://is.gd/kTJ3LR
68.“Disability
Rights Take Center Stage in Ecuador with New President Lenin Moreno.” Silvana
Moreno teaches at a school for deaf students and has witnessed gains for people
with disabilities under the Citizen's Revolution.--- telesurtv.net, May 24
(Ecuador)
https://is.gd/YaNL4E
69.“India
Campaign to Teach 5M Children About Sex Abuse.” Civil society groups in India
are working together on a new campaign to end child sexual abuse by 2021 by
raising awareness and action to the widespread problem.--- voanews.com. May 18
(India)
https://is.gd/hyNYdX
70.“Hovercraft
businessman Stephen John Preest acquitted, but criticised over sexual encounters
with intellectually disabled man.” A judge has acquitted a Canterbury
businessman of two charges alleging the sexual violation of an intellectually
disabled man, but criticised his actions. ---stuff.co.nz, May 22 (New Zealand)
https://is.gd/z7PafP
71.“Health
inequalities among challenges facing people with special needs.” When Mdm Jothi
Marimuthu’s son, who has special needs, suffered a hairline crack on his left
leg two years ago, the doctor at the accident and emergency department tried to
explain his medical condition to the 22-year-old man.--- todayonline.com, May 22
(Singapore)
https://is.gd/I6rMLk
72.“Assaults
between care home residents reported daily.” More than one assault a day was
reported in England and Wales, an investigation by File on 4 revealed. Some care
workers said they were not always given full information about who might pose a
risk.---bbc.com, May 23 (UK)
https://is.gd/rOZCCf
73.“Vote
Labour to uphold the rights of disabled people.” For chronically ill and
disabled people, recent years have been a disaster. The UN recently found
“reliable evidence that the threshold of grave or systematic violations of the
rights of persons with disabilities has been met” (Report, 8 November 2016).---theguardian.com, May 18 (UK)
https://is.gd/qk0wxa
74.“Elderly
woman dies and two mentally ill patients missing in Toxteth care home chaos.”
Carers slammed the chaotic relocation process after the Bentley care home in
Toxteth was closed due to mice droppings on the premises.--- liverpoolecho.co.uk,
May 20 (UK)
https://is.gd/CePal9
75.“New
campaign to get autism on general election agenda.” The National Autistic
Society is encouraging autistic people across the UK, and their families, to
talk to their local general election candidates about autism, by holding
candidate coffee mornings.--- charitytoday.co.uk, May 23 (UK)
https://is.gd/Ur2pOU
76.“Autistic
boy, eight, 'whipped with a lead' after his bicycle crashed into a man's dog.” A
young Wollongong boy with autism has allegedly been whipped by a dog owner after
his bicycle collided with the man's border collie.--- dailymail.co.uk, May 21
(UK)
https://is.gd/XC4wnQ
77.
Should 6,000 names of vulnerable have been passed on by Derby City Council?”
Derby City Council is at the centre of a privacy storm after handing out details
of thousands of vulnerable people without their permission.---derbytelegraph.co.uk,
May 24 (UK)
https://is.gd/sD7QAh
78.“Strangers
humiliate taxi driver after he refuses to let woman in wheelchair get into his
car.” A woman has praised the actions of strangers after a taxi driver refused
to let her in his car - because she was in a wheelchair.--- mirror.co.uk, May 25
(UK)
https://is.gd/lB9mcP
MISCELLANEOUS
79.
“Nebraska Cemetery Visitors Remember Developmentally Disabled.” Staff and
residents from a Nebraska center for people with developmental disabilities are
visiting a local cemetery to ensure former residents are remembered.---
usnews.com, March 25 (Nebraska)
https://is.gd/2uX9kC
80.“MTA
Workers Honored for Reuniting Autistic Teen Riding Metro-North Train Alone With
Family.” Four MTA workers were recognized Thursday for helping to reunite a
non-verbal autistic boy riding a Metro-North train alone with his family last
month.--- nbcnewyork.com, May 25 (New York)
https://is.gd/nf3Far
81.”SECU
shows support for N.C. Vulnerable Adult and Elder Abuse Awareness initiative.”
Known for its ongoing efforts to combat senior financial exploitation, State
Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) is seizing another opportunity to support an
annual North Carolina initiative known as Vulnerable Adult and Elder Abuse
Awareness Month, held now through June 18th--- cuinsight.com, May 22 (North
Carolina)
https://is.gd/jXembQ
82.“Woodlands
5-year-old with Down syndrome gets life-saving bone marrow donation from teen.”
On April 19, 2017, Lily
Skeen, a 5-year-old girl with down syndrome, was "reborn" as she
rung the cancer battle bell at Texas
Children's Hospital.---
chron.com, March 25 (Texas)
https://is.gd/DoHGAq
83.“DHS Public Database Includes Personal Information of Abuse Victims,” A Trump administration effort to highlight crimes by immigrants has put victims in potential danger. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/immigrant-domestic-violence-victims-appear-dhs-database
84. “Police: 4-year-old child’s wheelchair stolen in Albany.” Every morning, 4-year-old Kendis’ older brother brings his wheelchair to the spot where he waits for the bus. However, on Tuesday morning when the bus arrived, the wheelchair was gone.--- news10.com, May 23 (New York) https://is.gd/XhV1d0