dagblog - Comments for "A man with severe autism weighed just 85 pounds when he died in taxpayer-supported care. An investigation was ‘inconclusive.’ His mother wants answers" http://dagblog.com/link/man-severe-autism-weighed-just-85-pounds-when-he-died-taxpayer-supported-care-investigation-was Comments for "A man with severe autism weighed just 85 pounds when he died in taxpayer-supported care. An investigation was ‘inconclusive.’ His mother wants answers" en this one arguably beats your http://dagblog.com/comment/311927#comment-311927 <a id="comment-311927"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/man-severe-autism-weighed-just-85-pounds-when-he-died-taxpayer-supported-care-investigation-was">A man with severe autism weighed just 85 pounds when he died in taxpayer-supported care. An investigation was ‘inconclusive.’ His mother wants answers</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://dagblog.com/link/crime-news-6-teens-hospitalized-shooting-aurora-park-near-central-hs-34805#comment-311926">this one arguably beats your story on the heinous scale</a></p> </div></div></div> Sat, 20 Nov 2021 01:42:10 +0000 artappraiser comment 311927 at http://dagblog.com I was being a little http://dagblog.com/comment/311406#comment-311406 <a id="comment-311406"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/311404#comment-311404">This is a weird comment -</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I was being a little sarcastic based on the previous comment. Catholic church did weird stuff over a longer period of time.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:37:26 +0000 Orion comment 311406 at http://dagblog.com This is a weird comment - http://dagblog.com/comment/311404#comment-311404 <a id="comment-311404"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/311402#comment-311402">The Nazis at least saw a</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This is a weird comment - Nazis better than Catholic Church? Atrocities" meaning the inquesition or what?</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 05 Nov 2021 21:34:41 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 311404 at http://dagblog.com The Nazis at least saw a http://dagblog.com/comment/311402#comment-311402 <a id="comment-311402"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/311390#comment-311390">No it&#039;s not Nazi scum, it&#039;s</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Nazis at least saw a place for some of their "handicapped" and just terminated the ones they thought were out of sorts, I guess. The Catholic Church has been on this kick for some time and their atrocities lasted far longer.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:16:44 +0000 Orion comment 311402 at http://dagblog.com No it's not Nazi scum, it's http://dagblog.com/comment/311390#comment-311390 <a id="comment-311390"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/man-severe-autism-weighed-just-85-pounds-when-he-died-taxpayer-supported-care-investigation-was">A man with severe autism weighed just 85 pounds when he died in taxpayer-supported care. An investigation was ‘inconclusive.’ His mother wants answers</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>No it's not Nazi scum, it's worse, it's Judas betraying Jesus for some coinage. It's Ms. Sharita Brandon, the lowliest scum of all scum, scamming to steal government money by starving and stealing from handicapped who are getting aid, torturing them for money. There's no picture of Brandon on the internet that I could find, she's probably got a decent lawyer making sure of that...</p> <blockquote> <p>WFAA’s investigation also found that Brandon should never have been working with people like Raul. </p> <p>In 2004, while living in Arkansas, she pleaded guilty to stealing money from a federal program that provided funds to the state to pay for day care for “children whose parents were receiving welfare and returning to work or school,” according to court records.  </p> <p><u>Documents in the criminal case say Brandon was a state contract worker who contacted day care providers and “solicited them to participate in submitting fraudulent vouchers” to the state.  A federal judge ordered her and several accomplices to pay back more than $880,000.  </u></p> <p>Four years later, Brandon had paid $817.05, court records show. A judge revoked her supervised release after finding she violated the conditions of her release. </p> <p>He sentenced her to one year and one day in prison.  </p> <p>Brandon later moved to Texas.  </p> <p>Records show that in 2016, a child care business ran a fingerprint background check on her, as required by state law. That search found her federal conviction. </p> <p>But background checks done by companies taking care of intellectually disabled individuals did not. That’s because those companies were only required to check her name in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s database, which contains only convictions in Texas state courts. </p> <p>Her federal conviction did not show up in there because it was in an Arkansas federal court. </p> <p>“Why would you not perform (a fingerprint background check) for caregivers who are going to be working with adults who are as vulnerable as the children in daycare?” Boatright said. </p> <p>The state’s 13 state-supported living centers take care of the same population of people as Raul. By state law, fingerprint background checks must be done on the employees who work there. </p> <p>Checking an individual’s name in the DPS database costs $1. Having a fingerprint background check conducted costs $38.25. </p> <p>“It’s a classic case of pennywise and pound foolish,” said Dennis Borel, executive director of the <a href="https://www.txdisabilities.org/">Coalition for Texans with Disabilities</a>.  </p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:44:59 +0000 artappraiser comment 311390 at http://dagblog.com