Adelaide woman’s ‘degrading’ death shows community’s ‘devaluation’ of people with disabilities

The case of an Adelaide woman who died after being left by carers in a cane chair 24-hours-a-day for a year shows the community still does not value people with disabilities as much as it should, advocates say. Her death, which Detective Superintendent Des Bray described as happening in “disgusting and degrading circumstances”, is now the subject of a manslaughter investigation.

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Topics:
Case study, Justice, Service providers, violence, Abuse and Neglect

Author:
Eugene Boisvert

Source:
ABC News

Date published:
Sat 16th May, 2020