Stay updated with breaking news from Jerry rea. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Feds find Iowa care home for people with disabilities used patients as human guinea pigs for experiments on hydration and sexual arousal without their consent The U.S. Department of Justice found that the residents of an Iowa care home were subjected to human experiments violating their constitutional rights Glenwood Resource Center cared for 200 people with intellectual disabilities Report found residents were subject of human sexual arousal experiments Questionable hydration therapy was also performed on patients Between June 2018 to April 2019, 14 residents died, which is twice the home s expected death rate ....
A U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Glenwood Resource Center reported the facility violated residents constitutional right while conducting a series of experiments. In the reported released Tuesday, the department said the center violated the 14th Amendment while conducting experiments without residents consent. The reported said the facility exposed residents to uncontrolled and unsupervised physical and behavioral experimentation, inadequate physical and behavioral healthcare and inadequate protections from harm, including deficient safety and oversight mechanisms during unauthorized sexual arousal and overhydration experimentation. In its finds, the Department of Justice said former facility superintendent Dr. Jerry Rea, initiated experiments on residents with intellectual and/or development disabilities in order to make the Glenwood Resource Center relevant after he took over as superintendent in 2017. ....
David Pitt December 22, 2020 - 7:00 PM DES MOINES, Iowa - The U.S. Justice Department has found a state-run care centre for people with intellectual disabilities has likely violated the constitutional rights of residents by subjecting them to human experiments, some of which were deemed dangerous by federal investigators. A report released Tuesday identified broad failures at the Glenwood Resource Center, including poor treatment of residents and failure of the Iowa Department of Human Services to respond. The report said breakdowns in the quality of physical health care exposed residents to harm and serious risk of harm. âIowa has been deliberately indifferent to those breakdowns and the risks they pose. Glenwood frequently leaves residents at serious risk of harm or death by ignoring changes in condition outright, or by adopting a clinically unjustified wait and see approach,â the report said. ....
Feds probe Iowa care home: Disabled not human guinea pigs by David Pitt, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 7:45 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 7:56 pm EDT DES MOINES, Iowa The U.S. Justice Department has found a state-run care centre for people with intellectual disabilities has likely violated the constitutional rights of residents by subjecting them to human experiments, some of which were deemed dangerous by federal investigators. A report released Tuesday identified broad failures at the Glenwood Resource Center, including poor treatment of residents and failure of the Iowa Department of Human Services to respond. The report said breakdowns in the quality of physical health care exposed residents to harm and serious risk of harm. ....
The Glenwood Resource Center is a state-run facility for Iowans with severe disabilities. The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded the state of Iowa likely violated the constitutional rights of disabled residents at the state-run Glenwood Resource Center by subjecting them to harmful human experimentation and inadequate medical care. “Individuals with disabilities are not human guinea pigs, and like all persons, they should never be subject to bizarre and deviant pseudo-medical ‘experiments’ that injure them,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband said in a statement. “Human experimentation is the hallmark of sick totalitarian states and has no place in the United States of America.” ....