Exploitation of Mentally Disabled at Texas State Funded School

Seven employees working at a Corpus Christi school for the mentally disabled have been put on paid emergency leave pending an investigation into an ongoing ‘fight club’ amongh the school’s residents organized, promoted, and nurtured by the employees. What makes this case that much more deplorable is not only that there were mentally disabled persons involved, but that they were negligently pitted against each other as if they were sub-human and very naive pawns readily and solely available for the entertainment of some idiots who more than likely had no more education than a mere HS diploma. If you are going to get your frustrations regarding your shitty life out, then be a man about it and fight amongst yourselves, but to get people with an identified below average IQ who cannot fully comprehend not only what is at stake, but that they can possibly hurt each other and in doing so can serve real time, is just plain wrong and is worthy of some good ‘ole fashioned Texas justice.



The case becomes a bit tricky for prosecutors since the workers themselves were not actively involved in the fights; they acted behind the scenes, and the level of involvement of each is difficult to gauge. However, because of the developmental challenges of the residents, they should be considered ‘not competent’ as a matter of law, and treated as if the same acts were being purported towards children. Obviously these residents could not discern this was wrong because if they had would they have been such ‘willing participants’ as the defense will surely claim. The fact that the workers employed in the capacity of caretakers and/or authority figures orchestrated the fights, places the whole mess in the same category as if a daycare worker would do the same with young children. There is simply no excuse for this type of abuse…period. I just find it disturbing that more people are not appaled as a result of this case.

Would more people object if kids were put to fight with each other in this manner? Of course, they would! So why not have the same objections when dealing with people of a consenting biological age, but with the mental maturity of a child?