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Posted May 18th, 2008 by minortopics | Permalink

Police say mother and nurses failed developmentally disabled boy

How can anybody be so cruel as to allow a severly disabled boy to die from bed sores so severe, it kills him? What did the hired nurses do all day?

Jaylen Brown needed round-the-clock care, and the 13-year-old developmentally disabled boy with cerebral palsy was supposed to have it. His mother had the help of two licensed practical nurses to care for her son seven days a week at their South Side home.

And yet the boy died Thursday of complications from “bone-deep bedsores” that the Cook County Public Guardian called a “a disgusting case of neglect” that a number of people should have seen before it was too late.

The boy’s death has been ruled a homicide, with the cause being blood poisoning from neglected severe bedsores, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.


Information from: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...



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  1. Misty
    May 18th, 2008
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    Let’s wait for the investigation. Anyone who’s never dealt with bedsores or circulation problems automatically would think this is horrible neglect, but bedsores can kill, even with the BEST and most attentive of care. You think Christopher Reeve had a bunch of lazy-ass nurses who weren’t looking after him? But that’s what did him in–bedsores.

  2. leahAvatar
    May 18th, 2008
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    If you keep the person moving while he is asleep,awake,in bed. how can he possiably get bed sores as bad as the ones he got?
    There woouldn’t be anyway he could have.

  3. newsy
    May 20th, 2008
    [3] | Flag |

    Not to be nit-picky, but Christopher Reeves actually died of cardiac arrest. It is thought that he had a reaction to his antibiotics that were prescribed for bed-sores. Bed-sores don’t have to be fatal and are quite treatable.

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