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State and Local
Court orders inquiry
into 13 state schools
Charges allege abuse of mentally retarded
DALLAS (AP) — Texas’ 13 state
schools for the mentally retarded
were ordered by a federal judge
Wednesday to cooperate in an inves
tigation of charges of abuse alleged
by lawyers for residents at the
schools.
Lawyers in a settled class-action
suit had called for the investigation
amid reports of abuse and numer
ous deaths at the schools.
Plaintiffs’ lawyer David Ferlegei
of Philadelphia said he now plans to
ask the judge to put a cap on admis
sions to state schools for the re
tarded.
“Because otherwise, more people
will be subjected to the same awful
conditions, which already violates
the court’s orders,” Ferleger said.
U.S. District Judge Barefoot
Sanders ordered the institutions to
provide information on all allega
tions of neglect, abuse, lack of safety
or harm to clients.
Ferleger predicted the Legis-
lature, faced with a court
order that
could cost the state millic
ins of dol-
lars, will dost at least
two state
schools and move the diet
its to com-
mu nit y homes.
“The retarded are nc
>t danger-
ous,” he said. “They have
commiited
no crime and they are sul
[fering be-
ing locked up in these it
istitutions.
Maybe a contempt citation will wake
everyone up.”
• In a second'court order, Sanders
also instructed court monitor Linda
O’Neall to do a »ew review of condi
tions at the Fort Worth State School
by June 1.
“That’s the school at which the
plaintiffs have made some fairly se
rious complaints about abuse,”
O’Neall said from her Tallahassee,
Fla., office. “There are some deaths
we will look into. I think the judge is
just responding to what’s before him
at this point.”
The Dallas Morning News re
ported Sunday there were as many
as deaths at the 13 schools
siatewide. One of the cases included
a lb year-old Fort Worth State
School . resident who swallowed a
lubber glove, wire and bolts and
then died from surgical complica
tions.
: n of die 45 deaths occurred at
the state schools in Fort Worth, Aus-
nn and Denton during a three-
month period, according to the most
recent quarterly report provided to
the court by the schools.
O’Neall said she did not know
which deaths she will investigate.
“I need to get with some of the
(onsuirants I’ll use before designing
completely what.the review will con
sist of,” O’Neall said.
Kent Johnson, an attorney for the
Texas Department of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation, said he
could not comment on Sanders’ or
ders because he had not read them.
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Judge freezes
in failed savings ana
assets
oan lawsuit
DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge
Wednesday froze the assets of six de
fendants in a lawsuit that claims of f i
cers of the failed Vernon Savings
and Loan Association exploited the
thrift for their personal gain.
Correction
A story in Tuesday’s issue of
The Battalion misspelled the
name of a registered nurse at the
A.P. Beutel Health Center as
Cindy Bergenbeck. The proper
spelling is Cindy Bergenbai k.
The Federal Savings and Loan In
surance Corp. on Monday filed a
suit seeking more than $350 million
in damages from six former officers
and a major investor of the thrift.
The suit alleged the defendants
fraudulently caused Vernon to
grossly overstate its profits and .net
worth in order to pay S22.1 million
in illegal dividends to Dondi Finan
cial Corp., a holdi
headed by Dallas d<
Dixon.
After Dondi acquired more than
90 percent of Vernon’s stock in
1982, the FSL1C alleged, the top of
ficials “began to loot Vernon for
their personal finapeial benefit ami
compam
loper Dor
defraud its depositors, creditors and
the FSLIC.”
The FSLIC did not specify dam-
. es hut said it would seek at least
jo million, the amount of insol
vency when the thrift was closed
March 20.
b 3. District Judge Joe Fish froze
he personal assets of the six former
■ >1 fleers, acting on a motion by the
FSLIC attorneys.
! ! assets of six of the individu
als were frozen, with the exception
i Don Dixon, because he’s involved
m bankruptcy proceedings in Cali-
rni i,” said Andrea Plater, a Fed-
ual Home Loan Bank Board
spokesman in Washington.
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