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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHospital linked to Santorum performed exorcism...on a boy with autism
You can't. Make. This. Shit. Up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/rick-santorum-uhs_n_1186443.html
Over the years, states have barred children from attending UHS facilities over safety concerns and the feds have put UHS on their radar. Department of Justice lawyers have filed two lawsuits accusing the chain of fraudulent activities. One lawsuit settled for $27.5 million. Another suit still pending in federal court in Virginia centers on a facility called Keystone Marion Youth Center.
The facility, located in Marion, Va., is a residential treatment center for troubled boys with mental-health issues. The majority of patients come from states' child-welfare and juvenile-justice systems. The center promises stability, schooling, and clinically-approved therapies. It was also approved to accept Medicaid patients.
It did not have approval to perform an "exorcism."
But that is what appeared to be happening in an empty room at Marion in May 2007, according to a facility teacher who passed by the room, which was occupied by at least one nurse, a supervisor, a janitor and a boy with autism. Several in the room appeared to be hovering over the boy and praying, according to the teacher, who recounted the incident shortly after to Barbara Jones, the center's director of education at the time.
If this guy ever ends up as POTUS, expect a resumption of witch-trials.
Capitalocracy
(4,307 posts)Bad move. Santorum's risking splitting the crazy vote with this one.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)"splitting the crazy vote."
Capitalocracy
(4,307 posts)two reasons: number one, the written word doesn't always convey sarcasm. Number two, it's plausible that someone might say it and mean it... lots of misconceptions out there
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)To me, the effect of the sarcasm is greatly diluted when you announce it.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Let the folks whose lives are guided by myth and superstition show you the way!
Capitalocracy
(4,307 posts)When you don't use logic, contradicting ideas don't have to be mutually exclusive! Oops!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)by both a psychologist and a psychiatrist as being on the autism spectrum (I am Asperger's), this makes me furious. We are what we are. Keep your imbecile fantasies of skydaddies and demons in your temples to ignorance, you retrograde assholes.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)My only concern would be the lack of parents or guardians in the room- and maybe they were present. Since I'm on dialup and Huff post is notoriously slow to load I don't know if that is covered by the original article.
Survivoreesta
(221 posts)And pogroms!