Female patients called bitches, sluts, and whores by staff at State Hospital.
DSH-Patton: 9/10/20, DSHABUSE has uncovered a horrendous situation at Patton State Hospital, where a unit of female patients have been verbally abused and terrorized for several years by the same specific staff yelling at them and referring to them as “bitches”, “whores“, “sluts”, or other demeaning labels. DSHABUSE spoke to several patients on unit 31 to validate and corroborate the information, however only 2 of the patients we spoke to would agree to a recorded interview; the other patients fear retaliation. As of this posting, the abuse of these patients is still going on based on the witness statements which were made to DSHABUSE on 9/9/20. This morning we notified several entities such as Disability Rights California, the Office of Law Enforcement Support, Assemblymember Ramos, and others, that every woman on unit 31 must be interviewed individually and privately to determine who else has been abused, as well as who witnessed the abuse.
Here is what you will hear in these two stunning audio interviews,
1) Jessica Ponce: Current unit 31 patient, describes being beat up by a staff member who patients call the “Beast”, who calls patients bitches, and other derogatory terms. Says this is being going on for years.
2) Alicia Paige: (starts at 12:00) this patient was moved off of unit 31 two years ago after being abused, and reporting abuse by “the beast”, and other staff. She gives corroborative testimony about being abused, being called derogatory names by specific staff, and reporting it to police which resulted in her move to unit 32. She also identifies other patients that were abused.