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"Vegetable bins and crib babies"????
Comment from : @juliegilman7054

Can we open the place for a couple of days as it was Let the rich Monster who was not a mom stay there? Asking for a friend
Comment from : @bellado143

Well lady she didn’t get what she needed She needed a different Mother… Not a Monster
Comment from : @bellado143

These poor, poor people It's so heart breaking
Comment from : @readMEinkbooks

The real morons are the ones in denial that continue to think this was a great place to live and thrive They say that from the safety of their home
Comment from : @deniselockhart2882

My grandfather was born in 1951 and he is considered developmentally disabled His family were immigrants from Norway, and I am so thankful for that because they protected their son rather than lock him away due to his condition His father even fought the military when they tried to draft him, knowing he wouldn't make it To this day, I praise his parents and his older brother for making sure he was able to have a life so I could be a part of it <3
Comment from : @strawberryhellokittyx

There is a place in Norman ok is called griffen mental health the city still has the old building up I heard that place had the same problem as what there talking about now
Comment from : @isabellamcauley9790

As a mother, this broke my heart
Comment from : @nicoleburns1921

It's a terrible history and it still happens today
Comment from : @Angel-ym2op

What sucks is that the staff that work directly with the clients get paid minimum wage to deal with behaviors and get threatened and deal with 50 to 100 clients by ourselves
Comment from : @fenix310

😪😪😪😪
Comment from : @AndrewWerner-p1l

So they've closed the institutions What had happened? They ate homeless, on the street
Comment from : @hopemccubbin8661

My mother was in there at 4 She took off 16 my now in she 76
Comment from : @nonnaisaac9070

Now who’s telling no the truth here? I think the ones who have nothing to lose
Comment from : @marquesn77

Some People with mental illness were very intelligent people it could happen to everyone healthy people to so they shoudend be treated like children but with respect ❤
Comment from : @Snacky521

My mother had a mental illness she had to take meds it changed her a lot to keep the symptoms down but she met her new husband there 😊
Comment from : @Snacky521

The government should look at this matter and make it is a compulsory for people with disability to be registered with the Welfare Department so that their needs will be taken care off and at the same time they need family supports
Comment from : @SelineSharon

My God how can people treat other people so horrible
Comment from : @craigblair458

This breaks my heart I can't belive someone could treat another person this bad I'm a psychologist and special needs care giver and I love each and every one of the people I work with
Comment from : @MsAdri1988

The staff is so infuriating
Comment from : @katebetancourtclc8527

I mean this is clear that these people made a check that they didn't care absolutely Criminal
Comment from : @wendynoto1923

This was very emotionally exhausting I want to say so much but simultaneously am lost for words I pray for the souls of all those lost to places like this What I can say is that may that "mother", "nurse" and "doctor" receive their karma in this lifetime
Comment from : @FlawlessEnigma

Everyone deserves to live with dignity But what do you think happened to a lot of patients from these closed institutions? They end up being homeless The right thing to do was por funds into the mental institutions so that they could afford good staff and proper care Just shutting them down was not the "kindest" thing to do
Comment from : @cindywannamaker5299

i cant watch this the preistoric means!
Comment from : @danielson101

It really scares me that they are so cruel to people because that is what they are, without a doubt it is good that they know their story and I want them to know that they are good people and didn’t deserve that treatment I like to inform myself so thank you for making this documentary Thanks Bill for make justice
Comment from : @Mar-vq9tx

heartbreaking
Comment from : @kandrews4260

And a couple decades later we have the Judge Rotenburg Center who uses cruel electric shock devices to quote on quote “cure” kids with Autism brbrMore proof that we don’t learn a thing from our history
Comment from : @ToxicCatt-y7c

Yes, but now our profound mentally ill fill the streets, jails and skilled nursing facilities I agree that these asylums were awful But isn't as equally unjust that these people are still institutionalized in prison or live in squaller in our backyards? They still aren't taken care of
Comment from : @heatherwild350

This place was the first of its kind to be shut down due to a class action lawsuit The "nurses," "doctors," and "orderlies" were all convicted of violating the patients' 8th amendment rights and their 14th amendment rights The injuries these people sustained at the hands of the "practioners" are unbelievable To read a story about an orderly who slammed a child against the wall by his ankle, and told the one who witnessed it that the orderly would do harm to them if they said anything is outrageous How can people want places like this back?!
Comment from : @MrsJasmyn45

23:34 OMG! First I don’t mix my foods together, and only ten minutes to eat it all! Talk about burps and hiccups and stomach issues Just wow
Comment from : @tarable7778

I think asylums should be here Some ppl need them They have come a long way
Comment from : @ChristiColonel

The mother who keeps saying "it was a great place Her daughter loved it and was treated so great" Is delusional Thats probably what she tells herself to keep the guilt away brThe lfolks who didnt mind being i feel sorry for That place is all they know Its such a shame
Comment from : @tubbeys

I thought this video would be filmed today like Belmarsh but it’s just a history video
Comment from : @tedwardtaylortv

Pennhurst is this nations shame Our disabled people deserve better and those people in the doc saying it wasn't bad in there have a few bolts loose How could anyone see that expose and see nothing but misery ain't right in the head
Comment from : @maryjobyrd5250

Just got to "they put me in a crib" and im in tears Wtf
Comment from : @cynicallemonade1792

It's sad they exploit this place for Halloween
Comment from : @andyreidsmustache9247

I work as a caregiver for the developmentally and intellectually disabled and this documentary needs to be shown in every New Employee Orientation class I work with so many staff that don’t care about the clients and I feel like this would either weed them out or make them more compassionate
Comment from : @weirdVampiress

As someone who's disabled and has learning disabilities Videos like this make me thankful to be born when I was!
Comment from : @Jacoe413

The sweet married couple! ❤❤
Comment from : @Sorilia4

you white people are sickest cruelest killers easily killed children easily killed indigenous people of this country killed children in Residential schools
Comment from : @lawrenceeustache9422

The old white haired human sitting in that hideous chair, with a soul that is ice, excusing her horrendous behavior! Why didn’t someone take her child from her instead of allowing her to pretend all these yrs that she’s a decent human, if in fact she is human! That’s debatable! If you read this and know the old witch, tell her I believe there is a special place for creatures such as herself, in the afterlife I hope hers is extra!
Comment from : @rhodamiller3031

The one mother, who was on the board of whatever and had convinced herself that bc her daughter wasn’t abuse no patient was abused brbrbrHer daughter never had signs of abuse bc her mother was heavily involved! I worked in a garbage nursing home when I first got out of HS and many of the people were older people with various mental disabilities that today wouldn’t have been institutionalized for it But my point being in a garbage facility that allows abuse to continue, the people who have the most involved family members get the best care and treatment I’m sure that’s what happened here That or she has such overwhelming guilt over institutionalizing her daughter that she has convinced herself that it was a great place that helped so many people I think the one former worker who also seems to think it was a good place, is probably also overwhelmed by guilt that she can’t remember the real abuses and horror of the facilitybrbrThis is just horribly sad, but we know now that outpatient services and community support is key for the development of people with mental disabilities We’re still lacking in those resources but it is getting better little by little I pray for all those affected by the mistreatments of the past ❤
Comment from : @JerseyGirl1224

The fact that the lady gave up her child because she felt the child’s behavior was affecting the youngest child is crazy to me
Comment from : @settbabykeem400

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Comment from : @LeacockFrances-s6u

As an autistic woman, I can tell that some of these people are straight up lying and some of the parents are in denial… I know I would be there if I was born earlier My heart goes out to the people who survived this torture
Comment from : @OneStubbornLass

Today they get thrown in and out of jail or nursing homes
Comment from : @douglasogden8875

How the parents could defend this place is beyond me I have two autistic children and it makes me sick to my stomach listening to them
Comment from : @Unapologetically_Feral

This is very heartbreaking the families just dropping them off and not looking back 😢 I bet they were upset when it was closed having to take them special needs relatives home
Comment from : @moniquehandy7103

Seem like the nurses dont want to admit to taking any part or seeing anything which i don't believe at all
Comment from : @CJbliss

I want to hug all these beautiful people My heart aches that they went through this And the families that "oh it was wonderful" No way you believe that
Comment from : @shawnaallen5978

the fact so many autistic people were abused and its STILL seen as some sort of illness to be eradicated and cured just breaks me (as someone who is autistic and ADHD)
Comment from : @autistikitty2363

Not defending the cruelty, but without these institutions look around - here we are The mentally ill have no support on the street
Comment from : @cathyriach1285

40:06 he had gonorrhea and syphillis a few times? SA abuse was a daily occurrence for many of the residents Very sad
Comment from : @Alaska-Bush-Mom

37:11 Dr FEAR perfect name for an “educated” man to have, that would purposely inject person w something that would cause harm Apparently the Hippocratic oath, meant NOTHING to him
Comment from : @Alaska-Bush-Mom

I worked in a group home for people with DD that was one of the best jobs I had It was very rewarding to see how the residents improved their skills and started to have self steam and feel good about themselves To know that I helped them reach their goal, was very rewarding I felt so much love for them
Comment from : @veronicathode1466

Do you state hospitals and psychiatric asylums and Psychiatric Hospital should not have been closed because I just got done watching the video earlier today about prisons becoming the new psychiatric institutions and that's wrong if these people that committed crimes if they were still in the hospital they would not have been out on the street committing the crimes one wasn't for killing somebody one was in there for 15 years for snatching a purse all because of their mental illness got in the way if these people have been able to stay in the hospital they would not been able to commit those crimes I know when I was in the lake at the hospital in South Portland Maine there were no treats nothing on the floor and I'm like looking at the law and I'm like wait a minute they're supposed to be snacks up here and there ain't nothing so I filed a complaint a week later there were snacks on the floor but I miss the structure
Comment from : @Davey-TheDJ

“Vegetable bin” Jesus!!
Comment from : @freedomofexpression1382

It was deplorable the way they treated people, this was a govement set up, I pray that some of them get restitution for this So sad the way they were treated
Comment from : @melissapatrone9155

My sister is IDD The other side of the Eugenics coin is making the ppl who love her powerless to keep her from having 6 six kids that DHS took from her vaginally canal and sold to whomever DHS saw fit Never understood how it was illegal to get her on birth control but not legal to steal her kids
Comment from : @heathershields8233

Incinerating LIVE infants?! Did I hear that wrong?!!!
Comment from : @jamieyoho2310

The lady in the white shirt almost said the r slur You could see she stopped herself
Comment from : @Maggot_infestedd

What happened to the babies and children that no one wanted or truly couldnt care for ? What happened to those adults ??
Comment from : @trishmorrow4180

Over or under wrought virtue signalling not required Save for causes you really Care about Not intrested in humane labeling instead some research and badly needed reeingeering of this system It's a lazy antiquated mess Please take window dressing titles and conditions away!
Comment from : @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe

And we have the nerve to sing America the beautiful??? Are you kidding me?
Comment from : @kristanpetersen811

I grew up in this area, Royersford/Sping City Pennhurst is something that is this shadow still over the community I worked in town at the local pharmacies and some of these people in the interview I actually know personally The former residents, and some of the nurses that worked there I have heard the stories frist hand, the horrible things that took place As a teen me and friends would urban explore Pennhurst, I see the unmarked graves, the tunnels and the abandoned buildings The things I saw in thoughts buildings still hunt me today You enter pennhurst especially the mayflower building, you are hit with dread and dispare that carries with you Only way I can describe it Now these days, some of the former residents still live in town such as miss Margaret who everyone in town knows She is such an amazing person, so kind, will talk to anyone and she is a piller in the community if she knows it or not but she is Everyone knows Margaret and she is loved by many in the community
Comment from : @brybryguy6314

Rich mom that couldn't accept abandoning her child refuses to accept Sandra was abused beyond words
Comment from : @stayinstrong

I don't want that grey headed lady with the glasses taking care of meshes in denial that these people suffered at the hands of these idiots
Comment from : @2fast61

My daughter works at a facility with people with developmental disabilities, down syndrome, etc The clients live in houses with a few other clients and they each have their own rooms and bathrooms It is a nice program and I'm so glad it's not like it was!
Comment from : @melissamorton1282

Pennhurst; so sickening 😢
Comment from : @marjorieperry3745

My mother did a stint here in pennhurst when it was opened volunteering while she was going for her nursing She didnt stay long it was too heartbreaking and just couldnt take what they were doing to the patients course these days, pennhurst has a different use i live down the road from it To see the sheer size of the property can be overwhelming for sure it closed the year i was born
Comment from : @musicgirl214

Imo tartive dyskonesia from the drugs used on these victims
Comment from : @patriciasell

TOO MANY COMMERCIALS 🤮🤮
Comment from : @patriciasell

Wait, there are several Bittels in this documentary, are they related?
Comment from : @av9049-e7l

I had a son with down syndrome in 1984 at the ripe old age of 16 Doctor encouraged me to find a home for him Nope, I raised him myself We're two peas in a pod I listened, read talked to other parents and we made it out on top
Comment from : @ruthie1967

Now this is one of the most terrifyingly haunted places in the country Is it any wonder?
Comment from : @loveislove4879

sickening
Comment from : @katherineLGV

to the couple that were treated like worthless things, your story is the most romantic story ive heard thank god you hsd each other ❤
Comment from : @rosie-ella76

vice president of parent associationand a mother ,of someone in there? shame on her mrs bucket how nice it must be, to live in total denialofcourse she wasnt ready to have her ,"problem child" home !
Comment from : @rosie-ella76

love the lady with the bucket 😂ummwhat's with the badgering!!
Comment from : @rosie-ella76

My mom works as a nurse with those with IDD (I think that's what it's called) in group homes The reality is even now, in 2024, people are still struggling to care for those with disabilities Slowly, people are learning more about disabilities and how to treat and care for people with them Yes, progress is slow, but it's still progress I look up to people like my mother who do their best to care for those with IDD, especially because I can see how stressful it is for them, yet they still do it to give these people the best care they can
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Comment from : @harieljjohnson878

This is so heart breaking, my daughter had epilepsy with dravet syndrome, each siesure put her development back, she was 11 when she passed away, with development of a two to four year old, I am so grateful she was not put in a place like these, to get miss treated
Comment from : @juliewillis7852