LAURA: I’m five years older than my sister. How are you, Ben? BEN: How are you? And so it was very interesting to listen to families talk about them and how important they are in that family and really how important they are in society. One thing you realize is that most people don’t have contact with this community of people who have such disabilities. But as I began my reporting and began to dig deeper, I realized there was a much darker history to this case and what came before, and it made me think, you know, was history repeating itself again? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ In the early stages of my reporting, I interviewed a woman who lives in the Bronx whose sister, who- and we only referred to by initials “D.K.”- has been living at the Union Avenue home for many years. ♪ ♪ You know, this was clearly a highly vulnerable segment of our population, and the idea that there was abuse going on and other forms of mistreatment, you know, was troubling. Many had the minds of children but were in their 50s and 60s. The home was a place for about 24 people with developmental disabilities. The lawsuit alleged that at a group home on Union Avenue in the Bronx, physical abuse and neglect of the residents was rampant. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ BEN: In late 2018, I heard about a lawsuit, a civil rights lawsuit that had been filed in the federal courthouse in Manhattan, which I cover. Do what you have to do to help your sister.” My worst nightmares. “They are being severely abused by the day staff. Kearins, the workplace is not “a safe environment. ♪ ♪ It was September 12th, a day that I will never forget. ♪ ♪ And there’s no return address on it or anything. LAURA: I had come home on a Friday afternoon. Transcript Broken Trust: A Cycle of Abuse Decades after children endured inhumane treatment at a notorious state institution, some of them were abused again at a group home for adults.
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