Family seeks to sue Texas over attack on son in institution
March 24th, 2009From the Dallas Morning News, AP/Houston Chronicle:
The family of Hasib Chishty is seeking permission to sue the state of Texas for a 2002 attack at the Denton State School that left the 34-year-old paralyzed.
Chishty, who has an intellectual impairment but was otherwise physically healthy until the attack, is now unable to walk or feed himself. Chishty’s attacker went to prison and his family has been seeking to sue the state for years, but has been blocked by the Texas sovereign immunity statute.
They are hoping that recent allegations about abuse and neglect in Texas institutions will prompt lawmakers to grant them their day in court.
Kevin Miller, the staffer who attacked Chishty and is now in prison, has described a culture of drug use by himself and staffers and violent abuse of residents in the Denton State School.
In a videotaped statement, Miller called it “the systematic torture of residents … to get them to change behavior, or for sport, or to sadistically try to change their behavior.”
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May 1st, 2009 at 12:56 am
My sister died at Harris Methodist March 13th with a severe head injury that happened March 5th at denton state school there was no collision, she was pushed by a resident that was out of control due to the fact that his routine was interuted, where were his care givers??? Janis was a very self suffuient woman just on her way to work. All these years if she stupped her toe, or bump her head or had any inccident I recieved a phone call followed up by a letter of explanation, now I have nothing since March 17th the day her family and friends layed her to rest at her home since April 10th 1967. 42 years!!!! I still have no true report about what happened to our Janis Elaine Campbell
March 24th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I’ve got to wonder if suits like this had been allowed to happen and the state had been held accountable, how much abuse in the whole system over the last 7 years might have been prevented.