A really sad documentary

@Porcospino (31366)
Denmark
February 16, 2019 6:10am CST
Some days ago I watched an old documentary from my country. A journalist worked in a group home for people with special needs and wore a hidden camera. A lot of unacceptable things happened there. One of the residents wore the same diaper for 14 hours and the bed was soaked in urine when the resident finally left the bed. When the exployees arrived in the morning they spent between 2 or 4 hours without the residents. They had breakfast and watched tv before they helped the residents get out of bed The employees often ignored the residents, and when they spoke to them they often yelled at them instead of speaking to them in a respectful way. They also punished the residents if the residents didn't behave the way the employees wanted them to behave. It was shocking and heartbreaking to see the way the exployees behaved After the video was published some of the employees were fired. That is not surprising, because their behaviour was completely unaccepable. Most of the residents weren't able to speak, so they couldn't tell other people about the abuse.
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@fluffy69 (4956)
16 Feb 19
Thank you to that journalist. Otherwise their secrets would never be exposed.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
16 Feb 19
That is true. Without that journalist no one would have known what goes on behind the closed doors. I am glad that some of the exployees were fired, because they didn't care about the residents at all.
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@fluffy69 (4956)
16 Feb 19
@Porcospino it’s always like that not only home for the aged even, orphange managed by nuns, i heard stories like that.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
17 Feb 19
@fluffy69 Unfortunately this also happens in other countries and other places in my country..I have read some stories about nursing homes in my country, and some of them are shocking. When my great-grandfather lived in a nursing home he also met employees who shouldn't have had that kind of job. One of them yelled at him because he asked for help.
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@wanghui (894)
• China
16 Feb 19
if lack supervision,there are no that too much journalist to expose it.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
16 Feb 19
I think that the lack of supervision was the problem. Before the journalist went inside and used his hidden camera no one knew about the way the residents were treated.
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@wanghui (894)
• China
17 Feb 19
@Porcospino we always impossibly to know what had happened inside the closed door,it’s dependent on who is the trust people.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
17 Feb 19
@wanghui All Danish institutions (group homes, nursing homes etc) are inspected every year, but the employees know when they are coming, and they are often able to hide the truth about how things really are.
• Preston, England
16 Feb 19
glad the journalist exposed the truth
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
17 Feb 19
Me too. The residents weren't able to tell other people about the place because most of them can't speak or write. A hidden camera was the only way to find out what happened behind the closed doors.
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• Preston, England
17 Feb 19
@Porcospino makes investigative journalism all the more valuable
• United States
23 Feb 19
Isn´t it frightening and sad what the disadvantaged suffer so sad.
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@Nevena83 (65282)
• Serbia
17 Feb 19
It's horrible.And here, from time to time, recordings from such institutions appear, and it makes me very angry.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
17 Feb 19
Yes, it is horrible. It is so sad that something like that has been going on. People who lived there depended on help and they didn't get proper help. That kind of things also make me very angry.
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@Nevena83 (65282)
• Serbia
19 Feb 19
@Porcospino There are so many such families here and often no one helps them.
@Sheali (7461)
• India
17 Feb 19
We need more people like him
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
17 Feb 19
I agree I know that it wasn't an easy job for him. He was always afraid that some of the other employees would discover the camera, but fortunately that didn't happen, and in the end some people were fired because he was able to show what actually happened there.
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
18 Feb 19
@Porcospino good.. luck favored him
@wolfgirl569 (95121)
• Marion, Ohio
16 Feb 19
That is sad. Glad that journalist went in there.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
16 Feb 19
Yes, at least it was revealed what happened in that place. The journalist was nervous that they would discover that he wasn't a normal employee, but they never discovered his hidden camera.
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