University Daily Kansan, April 6, 1981
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dependence Inc. is a non-profit organization that coordinates services for the handicapped.
To receive help from either agency, the abused person should contact a social worker, who then can call the police for help if the victim wants. The abuse also can directly contact the police for help.
Both social workers said that unless a victim filed a complaint, agencies designed to aid the disabled with independent living could not be responsible what they might suspect to be an abuse situation.
"Actually the abused person must cope with the situation until an agency has discovered it," Moore said. "If an agency finds such a situation, they should have taken steps, one of four protective centers around the state."
THE CENTERS ARE in Lawrence, Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City, Kan.
Moore said that Independence Inc. had received only two cases of abuse in an entire year.
Yet Hinkle and Moore said that attendants often abused disabled persons. And they said that although they believed the most common form of abuse to be sexual, others did exist.
Maggie Shreve, project director for the Whole Person Center for Independent Living, offered services to people with cancer.
- Bill. a disabled person who wanted to die, asked his attendant to administer an overdose of his medication. The aide assisted him and Bill. No court action was taken in the case.
- Cathy, a severe cerebral palsy victim, hired an attendant who forged her name on an $800 check. She would not prosecute and was never able to recover the money.
- Joe. a victim of a spinal cord injury, hired an attendant to care for his needs. The attendant had infectious hepatitis but neglected to tell Joe when he was hired. Joe developed a bed sore, which in turn became infected with the disease. He died within two weeks.
"A large problem with handicapped abuse is that for different reasons the victim will not take
"If we can convince the disabled that they are protected by the same law as anyone who has been harmed, then we are getting somewhere. They may be handicapped, but they are people too who are protected under the same laws as the rest of society."
the offender to court." Shreve of the center for independent living said.
SHREVE Joe's parents brought suit against the Saidt and but dropped it. The
Moore said that often the disabled imagined that their story was incredible to those around them and resisted bringing action against the offender because they would not be believed.
She offered the following example of abuse at a Topea institution.
"A severely multi-handicapped man was taken into a private room by an attendant who began handling the individual's gentiles," she said, and that was forced into bed where the incident occurred."
According to Moore, no action was brought against the attendant because no one believed the story and that there was nothing the man did to prevent him until another place be found for him to stay.
MOORE AND SHEREV said such situations prompted them to advise handicapped people to live independently. But they say there is no guarantee of success.
"Who would believe me?" the man said.
"They always take the word of the attendant on a case."
They said the handicapped must be responsible for their own lives, including the hiring and firing of staff.
"They've got to realize that they have to take charge," Shreve said of the disabled living independently. "They have to have personal power."
Shreve said she urged handicapped people to train their attendants themselves and to maintain a good working relationship without manipulation of either party.
"On paper this has to be a very strict employee-employee relationship," she said. "The
But Shreve warned against the manipulatively abuses that the relationship could foster, saying handicapped persons also can abuse their attendants.
ALTHOUGH THE JOB relationship has to be strict, Moore said, there is potential for a great friendship between the disabled person and the attendant.
original job description has to be written in the cards."
"I think it occurs," she said. "Some disabled people have been in situations to manipulate their attendants into a dependent living situation. Attendants get abused in that process. I don't think the disabled are consciously aware, but it comes up."
SHE SAID THAT her office assisted the disabled in living independently, but would not hire, fire or screen attendants. The Independent Inc. agency in Lawrence does screen possible attendants before referring them to potential disabled employers.
Shreve claims that the abuses are reciprocated. She said she tried to explain this possibility to her clients.
Moore said the center checked on the dependability of the potential attendants through references and a personal interview. She said she looked for caring people.
"I'm not here to protect, just to limit the chances of abuse," she said.
In many cases, Shreve said attendants were never brought to court and might possibly be sentenced.
Moore attributes abuse to society's outlook on the handicapped.
Moore said she was to teach the public to want to provide services that the handicapped need.
"People fight not to make a place for them in society," she said. "The visible barrier is always there. One step is enough to stop one person from trying to climb over it, and the people view people in wheelchairs as being sick."
Klarsfield
"People have to realize that it's OK," she said
"We're all just one car wreck away from being handicapped."
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the second kind of murderers, those who mur- dered behind the desk."
Klarfeld also criticized German industrial
competence, and complicity in the
liquidation of millions of Jews.
"German industrialists took advantage of concentration labor, slave labor, to build their industries," Klarfsfeld said. "When the Jews were not in France anymore, they handed them over to be gassed."
Klarsfeld, who has been arrested several times by German officials for demonstration activities, said that too often in Germany the war went to jail while the war criminals wore free.
"It is essential that we engage ourselves without hesitation in stopping the Nazi and neo-Nazi movement. Klarfsel said, "That attack will not be your freedom by standing in the lion's mouth."
KLARSFELD DEFINED her sometimes bamboo式妈客 for bringing a Nazi war
criminal to the public's attention, methods that included an attempted kidnapping and a mock assassination of two suspected Nazi war criminals.
"I prefer to act, and act on the spot, instead of protesting in the lecture hall," Klarszfeld said. "It would be different if we had thousands of people behind us, supporting us, but we don't. So sometimes we must resort to the sensational to bring about results."
rising neo-Nazi movement gathering momentum in both Europe and the United States.
Klarsfeld also expressed concern over the
"The propaganda that this movement uses is dangerous and effective." Klarfsfeld said. "They take advantage of the duplicity of the public, publishing material that suggests that the Holocaust never happened, that the 6 million only a few thousand.
"Here in the United States, the neo-Nazi is the one who speaks against the Jew, against the black and the foreigner. They too, like the Nazi of Hitler's Germany, seek a superman."
No fire found at Bailey Hall
For the third time in as many months, Lawrence fire fighters responded to an alarm at Bailey Hall yesterday. No fire was found and no one was injured.
A professor in the building called the fire
The origin of the odor was not found
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