DISABLED FORCED TO FIGHT LIKE MICHAEL VICK'S PIT BULL DOGS!

MENTALLY DISABLED, ABUSED - MADE TO FIGHT!

MENTALLY DISABLED MADE TO FIGHT IN "FIGHT CLUB"

By Synthia Esther

May 12, 2009

Brad Pitt with shirt off as Tyler Durden in the movie Fight Club.

BRAD PITT - IN THE MOVIE, "THE FIGHT CLUB"

Much like the violent hit film Fight Club (pictured) (IMDB), the mentally disabled were made to fight by night shift employees at a Corpus Christi, Texas, state school for mentally disabled.

CAUGHT ON TAPE

Cell phone video's showed the mentally disabled forced to fight for the amusement of night shift employees at the Texas facility.

Around the stroke of midnight or a little there after, a Corpus Christi, Texas, state facility for the mentally disabled was turned into a "Fight Club," by the night shift hired to care for them. Fear gripped the hearts of male residents who were made to fight much like Michael Vick's pit bull dogs. Trained to battle, coached and pitted against one another, the male residents were urged on by employees, who taunted them with threats. The brutal fight scenes were caught on cell phone video tape and brought to police attention after one of the school employees left his phone at a hospital and it was turned over to police. In an attempt to find out who the cell phone's owner was, the police watched the recorded "Fight Club" video's, which then became disturbing state evidence.

According to ABC News Reports, one resident is seen on the video trying to run away from his attacker and a large group of employees and residents tracking him through the halls. When cornered, he moans and wails telling employees, "I will behave." The Associated Press reports authorities stated, resident's were forced to shove, punch and strike each other. A judge ordered the video tapes released without any restriction on their use, to attorney Bob Hilliard, who is suing the state on behalf of former resident, Armando Hernandez. Hilliard said, "It happened for over a year and it happened for many nights of the week." Mentally challenged Hernandez says he was fearful to even tell his mother of what was happening during the night. Hernandez told ABC News, "They say 'snitches get stitches." Attorney Hilliard is quoted as stating, "There are no words as strong as the faces of these residents. It is a place past fear. It's a place where they have almost accepted that the school where they're locked into could very well end up being a coffin for them."

INDICTED ON CHARGES OF CAUSING INJURY TO A DISABLED PERSON

Six former employees were indicted on charges of causing injury to a disabled person. Prosecutors identified the ring leader as Timothy Dixon, 30, who police say can be heard on the video calling play by play of the fight as if he were ring announcer. The cell phone videos are the latest example of confounding, disturbing conditions at the 12 Texas schools for the developmentally challenged and disabled. A federal civil rights investigation, completed before these cell phone videos were inadvertently discovered by police, found that more than 800 employees had been suspended or fired for abusing facility residents since 2004. A 2008 Federal report cited negligent and abusive care that violated residents' rights, citing 53 deaths linked to preventable conditions at the institutions.

NO DOUBT THIS NEWS REPORT PROVIDES EVIDENCE OF BAD EMPLOYEES WITH SICK AND EVIL INTENTIONS. BUT WHAT ABOUT LOVING INTENTIONS FROM GOOD EMPLOYEES ?

In 1925, two young medical school graduates and their father started a tiny sanitarium for mental patients on a farm outside Topeka, Kansas. At the time when the "rest cure" was in vogue in psychiatry, this father-and-son team determined to create a family atmosphere among their patients. The nurses were given specific training on how they were to behave toward specific patients: "Let him know that you value and like him." "Be kind but firm with this woman - don't let her become worse." Those young doctors were Karl and William Menninger, and the Menninger Clinic, using such "revolutionary" methods, has become world famous.

WE CAN LIVE IF WE HAVE LOVE

Karl Menninger, summing up, said, "Love is the medicine for the sickness of mankind. We can live if we have love." God's word proclaims love to be patient, kind, not easily angered or self-seeking. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails." - 1st Corinthians 13:8

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