The younger Shehadi’s fight is not over. Whether he can help his brother finally leave the hospital he entered more than 25 years ago or not, he wants to change the system that has kept him there all these years.
The $9 million settlement, approved by a judge last week, will be placed into a trust fund for William Shehadi for the duration of his life. Upon his passing, his brother plans to donate the funds, he said.
Connecticut has settled a $9 million lawsuit in the case of William Shehadi, a mentally ill man whose physical and psychological abuse, while he was a patient at the state’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital, were captured on video.