Abuse In New York State-run Homes For The Developmentally Disabled.

See NYT Shocks with Investigation of State-Run Homes by Cheryl Miller at the AEI blog. Here it is:

"The Sunday New York Times has a shocking front-page investigation of state-run homes for the developmentally disabled. The Times reviewed 399 cases in which a state employee was accused of beating, molesting, or otherwise harming the patients in their care and had also been disciplined for a prior offense in the last two years.

Just 35 of the workers were fired, while the rest returned to work—thanks, in no small part, to the efforts of New York’s largest union, the Civil Service Employees Association.

That includes employees like Ricky D. Sousie, who was caught by a coworker sexually assaulting a severely disabled, nonverbal woman. (He had previously been disciplined for punching another coworker in the face.) After a stint in jail, Sousie is now ready to collect his state pension (a privilege he shares with New York’s notorious “rubber-room” teachers). In fact, the Times notes, if Sousie hadn’t been sent to jail, he’d, “presumably, still be employed.”"