Earl Smith - 1995

The prosecution knew that all air was pushed out of this 9 year old boy, but their trouble were that the only witnesses were troubled children none would believe in court.

The result was that the gross negligence a staff member inflicted on Earl Smith resulted in a 18-month suspended sentence and 100 hours of community service.

That is not fair to either the relatives of the boy and of course Earl Smith himself.

May he rest in peace.

Sources:

• Day Four: People Die And Nothing Is Done (The Hartford Courant on October 14, 1998 - from the Charly D. Miller website)
• Victims in the 1990's (Fornits Wiki)

Jimmy Kanda - 1997

You may have heard of a restraint chair. It is a chair with straps they use in prisons or at court to handle disruptive prisoners. Organizations like Amnesty are all over it and calls the use of such chairs abusive. What not so many people know is that the concept of a restraint chair is used in the treatment of minors.

It may look less scary. It is better padded. But the purpose is that the same. The often undermanned staff can use time on more patients earning more profit for the owners.

It did cost the life of 6 year old Jimmy Kanda in 1997.

At the Crow's Nest Family Care he had been left there unattended for hours. We will never him give a testimony to Amnesty or some other human right organization due to his too early death

References:
DESTROYING LIVES The Assault on Children (Mental health abuse website)
Victims in 1990s (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)