My so was on a behavioral unit and a staff member took excessive force to restrain him and now they say the video of ot was not kept.

[Alysha78]

My 15 year old was on the behavior unit for talking about wanting to hurt himself . He has never been violent toward anybody. He talks about it, babbles and says off the wall things, he motions like he hitting himself and hisses, but never has laid a hand on anyone. The story as cole tells it (that's my sons name) is woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, he was grumpy and the lights bothered him so  he went to the day room and laid down, a staff member told him to go back to his room and he got mad and was waving arms about and staff took arms behind his back and shoved hm to the wall, he started to cry and staff pushed hm with arnms behind his back to his room shoved him on the bed on his stomach, arms, still behind him and put his arm on the back of coles neck and put his body on coles to hold him down. Now my son is very sensitive ton touch, (as alot of autistic kids are) he doesnt even like to give hugs and flips out at the smallest cut. I call every couple hours to check ion him, not one time did a staff member report the incident to me and i asked to talk to him each time i called and tghey sayd he was eating, or in the shower and they would have him call me back. Never got a call. So i called at 8pm and got to taljk to him, he then tels me the story, i was IRATE!!!! told him to give the phone to the guy who did it, he tells me cole was trying to bite him and he feared for his safety and thats what they are trained to do and that cole making it sound worse than it is. I was not satisfied with that and asked to talk to supervisor. Supervisor says he reviewed tapes and it was not as bad as cole says, apologized and made excuses why i was never told of it. I then said i wanted a meeting with the guy, dr, and supervisor and i wanted to view the tapes. next day went down to view tapes and they said they had to run it by administration first. Cole was discharged 2 days later,still not letting me view tapes. I think they thought i wouldnt pursue it after he came home. WRONG!!!! So i called yesterday requesting a meeting and to view tapes and lady told me that the tapes were no longer there, that it was a kind of video that tapes over itself every 3 hours. I said if he didnt do anything wrong wouldn't he want to make sure i viewed the tapes? Said that it all ereal suspicious and that i would be contacting a lawyer. Cole has become very irritated and keeps bring up the incident, wrote a 2 page detailed  about it. I assured hm mom would be taking care of it and try not to worry about it. This will affect him for a long time, he doesn't let things go and he will mentally regress im afraid. Im contacting a lawyer. Should i report it to dhs, or what other measures can i take to get this started and get justice for cole? I appreciateany and all responses.  Thanks to u all

[katie__m]

DHS can investigate. If there are recordings done it may be a violation of HIPPA. As far as the force issue you would have to see the protocol from the facility, and often in he said she said situations siding goes to the medical facility. Especially in facilities like that. It would be a difficult case at best, but DHS may be able to protect future patients.

[mom2priceboys]

 I absolutely believe him!!!! I was raped on a unit a few years ago and was told if I chose to continue to tell people about it I would be held even longer and back with the guy who did it... I shut up, went home the next day. I complained to the county mental health but they still send people there even after a few meetings with the hospital admin. In fact our county mental health made me say that it was my fault - thats right I made the guy push me over a chair and stick his penis in me --needless to say we no longer receive county mental health services which can suck a lot when your bipolar with PTSD