A stunning video exhibits a 19-year-old Queens resident was dragged whereas he screamed in ache when a case employee at a Dutchess County establishment for autistic youngsters grabbed him by the genitalia and squeezed them in his palms.
In upstate Staatsburg, roughly 10 miles north of Poughkeepsie, Garnet Collins, 50, is accused of abusing the youngsters on the publicly-funded boarding faculty operated by the non-public Anderson Center for Autism.
The Anderson Center sparked extra outrage after it fired the whistleblower who captured the smoking-gun footage and knowledgeable the teenager’s dad and mom.
The ugly tragedy brings consideration to the well-known 100-year-old establishment, which receives tens of millions of {dollars} in state and native tax monies to deal with and educate adolescents with extreme autism.
The Anderson Center receives $651 per day from the state for lodging of every resident, The Post reported.
19-year-old’s father speaks out
The father of the 19-year-old, a monetary advisor from Queens, acknowledged, “Our son has been traumatized.”
The father of the sufferer revealed that his son has been “traumatised,” demanding justice for him and the opposite youngsters in that facility.
Commenting on the whistleblower’s footage that was first launched by Fox 5, the daddy remarked, “My son is screaming on the high of his lungs.”
“The abuser is yelling, ‘Go to your room!’ My son says, ‘I don’t need to! I need to name Mommy’!”
“The perpetrator then grabs my son by his penis and by his scrotum, via his clothes, and drags him 20 to 25 ft into one other room, the place he shuts the door. My son continues to scream inside that room,” he talked about.
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In order to protect his son’s privateness, the daddy requested to be recognized solely by his first identify, Anil.
State Police arrested Collins after the sufferer’s dad and mom offered the footage to them on August 11.
He faces two felony fees of harming the welfare of a bodily challenged or incompetent particular person.
Anil additional fees that directors at Anderson Center, who allegedly “turned a blind eye” to wrongdoing and didn’t successfully probe and prosecute the aides.
Meanwhile, Anderson Center spokesman argued in a press release to The Post, “We haven’t any cause to imagine that was ever stated.”