'Grim Reaper' threatens to castrate incontinent patient
Published: 25 Feb 10 09:32 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/25200/20100225/
A sheltered housing facility in Torsby in western Sweden has found itself embroiled in a macabre controversy after a staff member dressed up as the Grim Reaper and threatened to castrate a bed-wetting patient.
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The employee dressed up as the Grim Reaper, went into the handicapped man's room and threatened to cut off his penis if he did not stop peeing himself.
The incident has been reported to the local health authority and is the subject of a Torsby municipality investigation.
The "Grim Reaper's" macabre threats have not however been reported to the police, the newspaper reports, although the staff member in question has been served notice.
Nor is the incident an isolated occurrence, as a further report has already been filed against staff at the home.
"It concerns incidents occurring over an extended period of time but I can not go into more detail," Birgitta Bergh at Torsby municipality told NWT.
When the newspaper asked to review the documents pertaining to the reports they were told that they had been classified to protect the patients.
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This guy should be marked out so that when he gets old and starts peeing himself he can be left to Lie in his own pee for a month or two
Teachers, doctors, nurses, bankers and the editorial staff at the Local are also badly paid and unskilled yet you don't see them misbehaving?
I can agree with you to some extent. Scaling down gvt spending, OK, but if the spending was irresponsible to begin with and in the scale-down only the responsible spending is cut and the waste still continues... What is needed is administrative reform down the board. I bet the money is being spent paying inflated salaries of the policy-maiking politicians who sit there deciding where the money should go instead of going to pay for the salaries of the people offering the actual servces.
Many countries charge much lower taxes and provide much better services because the money is actually spent on what counts, i.e., education, health care, transportation etc... and not on multi-million projects such as a new sports arenas with retractable roofs which collapse under the weight of winter snows, huge swimming halls, spending fortunes to purchase exotic wildlife for local zoos only to turn anound and kill them when they get too much trouble to care for, etc...
Bankers badly paid..lol some low staff are, but banks in the last while have caused alot of problems and need no sympathy...
Dont forget about Government funded "Feminist Porn"
http://www.thelocal.se/21870/20090903/
what you are saying is knew to me. Why is the US government funding feminist porrn?
They should throw his ass in jail for abuse or at least fire him and force him to get counseling.
In Pennsylvania you must have your 33 & 34 act clearances(a child abuse clearance & a criminal background check), along with training and classes to teach you how to approach most situations you will come across on the job.
I do think the person should be IMMEDIATELY fired, and NEVER allowed to go back in to that field of work, as well as getting some type of mental eval and therapy as well as punishment for abusing another. He will be old soon too, and karma doesn't play fair.
So do you blame the government? The job facility? The person who committed the crime? Or just jump right back to the government???
I say the person who committed the crime should be accountable at all costs.