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Wed Jun 20, 2018, 02:06 PM Jun 2018

Immigrant children forcibly drugged with 'powerful' psychotropics at Texas 'treatment center': lawsu [View all]

Source: Raw Story

In a new lawsuit, immigrant children detained at a government-funded facility in Texas described being forcibly drugged with psychotropic medicines that made them dizzy and unable to walk.

Reveal reported Wednesday that minors held at the Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas — described in its Google+ listing as a “baby gulag” — were physically abused and given shots of “powerful” psychiatric medications that “rendered them unable to walk, afraid of people and wanting to sleep constantly.”


In the affidavits, the children and their parents said workers at the facility told them they would not be allowed to leave or see their parents if they didn’t take the medicine, which was administered via shots. The children were allegedly told the shots were “vitamins.”

“The supervisor told me I was going to get a medication injection to calm me down,” one girl said. “Two staff grabbed me, and the doctor gave me the injection despite my objection and left me there on the bed.”
According to one mother, her child “fell repeatedly, hitting her head, and ended up in a wheelchair.” Another “described trying to open a window and being hurled against a door by a Shiloh supervisor, who then choked her until she fainted.”

“One child was prescribed 10 different shots and pills including the antipsychotic drugs Latuda, Geodon and Olanzapine, the Parkinson’s medication Benztropin, the seizure medications Clonazepam and Divalproex, the nerve pain medication and antidepressant Duloxetine, and the cognition enhancer Guanfacine,” the report noted.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/immigrant-children-forcibly-drugged-powerful-psychotropics-texas-treatment-center-lawsuit/



Read the article - it's awful. This is so awful it's hard to even post it. This private company was operating immigrant housing and abusing children there even in 2014! Are we evolving into the Fourth Reich?
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THIS is what they've been hiding. That and the Soylent Green factory next door. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #1
Oh boy, Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #2
OMG woundedkarma Jun 2018 #3
I just finished reading dgibby Jun 2018 #39
"that's life now" Perseus Jun 2018 #44
Amen! Delphinus Jun 2018 #46
Alan Dershowitz, paging Alan Dershowitz: Pres. Trump needs to you to NCjack Jun 2018 #4
Standard Bureau of Prisons policy pecosbob Jun 2018 #5
WTF??? Mrs. Overall Jun 2018 #6
if this true... handmade34 Jun 2018 #7
OMG! ButSeeYa Jun 2018 #8
This has GOT to stop!! Thekaspervote Jun 2018 #9
Horrible, yet believable. I've read this is done to people in nursing homes appalachiablue Jun 2018 #10
They do it to people not in nursing homes too! CountAllVotes Jun 2018 #20
How awful! Sorry for your mother, you and family. Some of the appalachiablue Jun 2018 #61
'New' lawsuit? Evidence from ongoing class action? elleng Jun 2018 #11
this is the article referenced, dated 2014. scipan Jun 2018 #41
Thanks. elleng Jun 2018 #43
this, if true heaven05 Jun 2018 #12
Who is running these prisons? Time to get some liability lawsuits against them. NCjack Jun 2018 #13
exactly onetexan Jun 2018 #15
Evil! backtoblue Jun 2018 #14
Private Prison Industrial Complex poli-junkie Jun 2018 #16
We have Assad as our fucked up wanna be dictator. bdamomma Jun 2018 #17
How is THIS the Democrats' fault? George II Jun 2018 #18
This is an ongoing problem, from at least 2014. scipan Jun 2018 #42
What's been going on the last couple of weeks has not happened before.... George II Jun 2018 #47
You then fail to see a relevant difference of degrees? LanternWaste Jun 2018 #49
Whos the Dr Mengele AZ8theist Jun 2018 #19
AGREE !!!! 3Hotdogs Jun 2018 #40
+100 Duppers Jun 2018 #60
And our government is using taxpayer money louis-t Jun 2018 #21
Congressman Trey Gowdy: A dodged investigation into the root cause of this fiasco and NCjack Jun 2018 #22
Excellent point, and this topic needs its own thread. flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #29
Words fail after reading this info. So inhuman it doesn't seem possible. Thank you, people. n/t Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #23
What medical professional would do this? tinrobot Jun 2018 #24
Many years ago I remember watching a TV expose on kids who were warehoused procon Jun 2018 #25
What is "Reveal?" BadgerMom Jun 2018 #26
Just posted below, see post #27. nt PunkinPi Jun 2018 #28
Thank you. BadgerMom Jun 2018 #32
You're welcome. nt PunkinPi Jun 2018 #36
Chris Hayes retweets Reveal journalists piece, lending credence to these types of allegations... PunkinPi Jun 2018 #27
OMFG. This is going to be hard to blame on the Democrats... flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #30
people, including the fucking doctors... dhill926 Jun 2018 #31
This is a preview people...this is all a test run to see what "works" best for what's coming... Moostache Jun 2018 #33
Obama was pres in 2014. THAT is not going to look so good. pangaia Jun 2018 #34
It's hard to rec a thread like this... LakeArenal Jun 2018 #35
I worked on a psychiatric unit... dawnie51 Jun 2018 #37
An article mentioned antitipsychotics with very limited FDA-approved uses in children and adolescent lunasun Jun 2018 #51
republicans are doing EVIL shit to children Achilleaze Jun 2018 #38
Yes. We are the Fourth Reich until something changes. ananda Jun 2018 #45
Texas has enough haters for a facility to run 24/7 like this and no one there speaks . Those drugs , lunasun Jun 2018 #48
this is not over. Not by a long shot. flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #56
LOCK ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS UP! Takket Jun 2018 #50
I look forward to seeing the people who did this locked in cages themselves. axm Jun 2018 #52
Fascist Trump DHS has NO plan to re-unite children with parents. Truly evil ripping families apart Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #53
No words. northoftheborder Jun 2018 #54
THIS is what Trump is trying to get ahead of C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #55
This smacks so much of Nazi camps Paula Sims Jun 2018 #57
KICK :( Cha Jun 2018 #58
What the F...... laserhaas Jun 2018 #59
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