Name: WFAA Investigates: Mother of autistic man angry Texas still slow to suspend bad caretakers
Uploaded: 10/10/2019 3:16:06 AM
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Description: It took nearly a year for the state officials to stop a caretaker who waited hours to call 911 for an autistic man stabbed 85 times with a screwdriver.

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