DESTROYING LIVES The Assault on Children

The following cases illustrate the dangers of a �profession� that has no understanding of or answers to mental health problems. The fact
that such heart-wrenching tragedy is regularly repeated under psychiatric childcare, in spite of the best government efforts to prevent it, reflects the viciousness of individual psychiatrists. They not only condone such criminal brutality, but dare call it �treatment� or �humane restraint therapy.�

2002: 17-year-old Charles Chase Moody of Texas was suffocated to death during a restraint procedure in a Texas behavioral treatment facility.

2001: 11-year-old Tanner Wilson died from a heart attack while being restrained in an Iowa mental health facility.

2000: 12-year-old Michael Wiltsei died of asphyxiation while being restrained at a Florida youth center.

1998: Within two weeks of being admitted to Desert Hills psychiatric hospital in Tucson, Arizona, 15- year-old Edith Campos was sent home to her parents in a coffin. She had died of asphyxiation, her chest compressed when she was held to the ground by hospital
staff for at least 10 minutes after reportedly raising her fist during a confrontation with staff members

1998: 14-year-old Dustin Phelps died in a home for developmentally disabled children in Ohio. He had been wrapped in a blanket and mattress, tied together with straps and left unattended for four hours.

1997: 18-year-old Sakena Dorsey died from suffocation during a face-down restraint, with a staff member laying across her back. She had a medical history of asthma.

1997: 12-year-old Robert Rollins died at a Massachusetts facility after being restrained for 10 minutes, face down on the floor, as a result of a dispute that had escalated over his missing teddy bear.

1996: 6-year-old Jimmy Kanda died after being strapped to a wheelchair and left unattended in a psychiatric Family Care Home in California. He died from strangulation, trying to free himself from the straps.

1996: After being wrapped in a plastic and foam blanket for one hour at a mental health facility in Texas, 16-year-old Eric Roberts, died.

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