Federal prosecutors say two men who worked in direct care at a western Pennsylvania residential facility inflicted what a grand jury alleges was “violent, demeaning and humiliating” abuse on people with severe physical and mental disabilities.
The indictment said the two men encouraged each other.
The two men, who are both white, used a racial slur to describe Black patients and spoke of killing the people they were paid to help, the jury said. Many of the attacks described by the grand jury were allegedly committed by Dinell and documented in their text exchanges, including “slamming,” “sanitizing his eyes,” spraying ice cold water on a naked resident with hypersensitivity to cold, rubbing liquid irritant into a resident's eyes, kicking a resident in the head and punching a resident in the head three times with his fist.
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