A boy was choked and verbally abused at Kentucky facility where 7-year-old was killed, lawsuit says
A mother says her developmentally delayed son was choked, scratched and verbally abused at the same Kentucky youth facility where a 7-year-old boy’s death by
GEORGETOWN, Ky. — A mother says her developmentally delayed son was choked, scratched and verbally abused at the same Kentucky youth facility where a 7-year-old boy’s death by suffocation is under investigation by police.
Autumn Janeway said her son Anthony, 11, endured “physical and emotional abuse” at the Brooklawn facility in Louisville during his stay from July 2021 until March.
Janeway, who on Friday filed a lawsuit against the facility’s parent company alleging negligence, said she had voluntarily checked Anthony into the location for private residential therapeutic treatment for a litany of issues: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and because the boy was harming himself and his younger siblings, and running away.
She said she struggled to keep Anthony — who is developmentally delayed and had been in special needs care since he was 5 — at home and was constantly anxious about his and his siblings’ safety.
Brooklawn, which is owned and operated by the nonprofit organization Uspiritus and treats children with mental and behavioral needs, was the first residential home Anthony lived in.
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