We don't know for how he struggled realizing that he was about to die due to the fact that he could breathe as the employees were on the top of him.
Cleo Wallace Center/Devereux got their employees off based on this self-invented system. It is not fair for either Casey Collier or for the family he left behind. He should have been given some justice. It shouldn't been free to kill children like him.
May he rest in peace!
Source:
- The Truth About Prone Restraint
- Mother says negligence caused her son's death (By Jeffrey A. Roberts, Denver Post Staff Writer, June 10, 1994)
Casey died from the use of a prone restraint (now illegal in Co. under most circumstances) with five staff members on top of his body as he lay prone on the floor and was vomiting. He had asthema which made it difficult to breath as well. Many folks in mental health facilities are on psychotropic medications which can cause weight gain. Weight also contributes to death when prone restraint is used. Casey died in 1993 and more than twenty years later, the state passed a law that prone restraint could not be used in educational settings as well as others.
ReplyDeleteI remember that day well as I was stuck in a room with a direct view of what they did to Casey. I’m 41 now and I remember that day like it was yesterday. That was a murder, period. He told them he couldn’t breathe and they kept piling on.
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