When you send your loved one to a care facility, or for in-home care that specializes in helping disabled individuals, you expect that they will take great care of them and protect them from injury and abuse. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Many disabled individuals end up being victims of various forms of abuse, neglect, abandonment, or mistreatment.

No one should be the recipient of abuse, especially those who may not have the physical or cognitive ability to protect themselves or expose the abuse. Therefore, if your loved one has been mistreated by the disability care facility that should be a place of refuge, our legal team at Rousseau & Ross can help file disabled adult abuse lawsuits in Lebanon, NH. Our injury attorneys have experience in disability care litigation and have helped extract the right form of justice and compensation for disabled victims of abuse. Call now to discuss your case.

Common Types of Disabled Abuse in Care Facilities

Individuals in care homes who are living with intellectual, developmental, neurological, or physical disabilities can unfortunately be subject to various forms of mistreatment. These include:

• Physical abuse, such as hitting, slapping, punching, use of restraints, or leaving them in dangerous situations, such as in a locked vehicle in hot weather
• Neglect and abandonment, often evident as a lack of care, untimely medication administration, no supervision, poor personal hygiene, and unsanitary rooms
• Sexual assault in the form of non-consensual sexual contact, groping, and other unwelcome advances, both from caretaking staff and fellow residents
• Verbal abuse, such as yelling, criticizing, name-calling, and hurling insults at the victim
• Emotional or psychological abuse, usually in the form of threats of physical harm, harassment, intimidation, humiliation, shaming, and threats of not seeing their loved ones

In some instances, the perpetrators are not even discreet about it, as evidenced in this case of a caretaker who sexually assaulted his victim. Anyone who abuses the vulnerable deserves to have the full weight of the law brought upon them; and the same applies to their employers. Let our skilled disabled person abuse attorneys in Lebanon help you obtain justice.

Signs of Adult Disability Abuse

Caregivers often count on the adult charge to keep quiet about their abuse. If the victim mentions it, the perpetrator may find ways to explain it away or dismiss it as the ramblings of someone who does not know what they are talking about. Therefore, you will want to know how to spot the signs of neglect and abuse. Common signs of mistreatment may include:

• Bruising, scars, welts, minor lacerations, rope marks on the wrist and ankles, and unexplained weight loss
• Broken bones, joint dislocation, and muscle sprains
• Bed sores, unkempt or disheveled appearance, dirty rooms, long fingernails and toenails with grime, and smelly clothing
• Urinary tract infections, bleeding, or discharge from the genitals
• Drastic personality changes, fear, moodiness, or depression

You may also find that the victim may frequently ask you to take them home or away from the facility. All these are red flags that you need to pay attention to and may serve as the basis for a lawsuit.

Contact an Injury Lawyer Experienced in Filing Disabled Person Abuse Lawsuits in Lebanon

The vulnerable people in our society deserve to be protected and shielded from harm, abuse, and exploitation. Therefore, if the very entities who should care for them decide to violate or mistreat your loved one, they should be made to pay for their actions.

At Rousseau & Ross, our experienced Lebanon adult disability abuse lawyer can help you and your loved one deal with this problem and hold the perpetrator accountable, as we have done in the past with other victims of abuse. Call now to discuss your case.