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• The News Not Fit to Print

  Published: August 19, 2007, 12:40 am

  Tags: Safety, Living Arrangements, Legal Issues, Asd, Aspergers, Assault, Autism, Children, Crime, Education, Family, Group Home, Health, Pdd Nos

  Autistic woman beaten in group home, flashed the next headline. A 5o-year-old autistic woman was beaten with a wooden coat hangar and a shoe by at least four workers at the PLUS Group Home Inc in Uniondale, Nassau County, on Long Island. The room was silent, aside from the sound of the TV. Commercials followed. “Something else to worry

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• Good and Not So Good, As in Awful

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Crime, Legal Issues, Education, Abuse, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Crime, Family, Group Home, Health, Ohio, Pdd Nos, Pedophile, Sex Abuse

  boy on the head at a group home for adolescents with autism and developmental disabilities. Philip Distasio, who was formerly a tutor for autistic children at PEP Harbor School in Cleveland, is now imprisoned in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The October 16th Columbus Dispatch reports that, during the three years that Distasio

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• Worker Sentenced in Cruelty Case

  Published: August 12, 2008, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Crime, Living Arrangements, Safety, Abuse, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Autism Blog, Connecticut, Disabilities Blog, Disability, Family, Family Blog, Group Home, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  a Bloomfield (CT) state-run group home for mentally disabled people, was banned from working in the health care industry after pleading guilty to negligent cruelty to a person, the August 11th Hartford Courant reports. Guay tormented and abused 38-year-old Christopher Stockton, who has severe autism, developmental disabilities, and

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