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Whorlton Hall Sentencing

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This was one of the abuse scandals uncovered by the BBC Panorama programme. The four carers convicted of abusing vulnerable autistic patients were sentenced yesterday. They were all given suspended sentences.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-68021858

In my opinion that isn't enough at all and trivialises what they did. Already we have the government failing to change the Mental Health laws to protect autistic people. Now we have the criminal justice system failing to make an example of those who deliberately mock, taunt and abuse Angry

  • in reply to T

    What's happening to us in this thread? I'm in lockstep with tris as well, now!!

  • It's depressing to see just where the buck stops. Like obviously these are 4 awful people, but who supervised them, who hired them etc?

    If the BBC are sending in someone undercover, they know what they're going to see so the idea that the only 4 people who are responsible are those filmed is ludicrous. We can say without a doubt that most or all of the people above them at that place would have been well aware of what was going on and enabling that abuse by not firing them and calling the police is not much better than the men being convicted. And above them there would have been people who might not have witnessed it but probably wouldn't have been surprised and only cared about keeping costs as low as possible. 

    The care sector is broken. These people are so important for the most vulnerable in our society but they get pay and conditions below what they deserve and we're supposed to be shocked when the kind and decent ones are all driven away and the twisted ********* are left. 

  • Carers ought to undertake a compehensive boot camp/assessment process with a relatively high "washout" rate, then those who get through ought to be paid adequately and given social status as befits someone who is entrusted with great responsibilty and held to a high standard.

    But nothing compared to what politicians ought to be put thorough. The political process should also at the very least identify (and  maybe limit the number?) of psychopaths who get through.

    The carer path of course needs to identify and eliminate ALL the psychopaths.