Deaf/Blind Teen Brutally Beaten By TSA Agents

VIDEO [CC] - <i><b>Deaf News: TSA sued for brutal beating Deaf, partially blind teen girl recovering from brain surgery at the Memphis Airport.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/07/deafblind-teen-brutally-beaten-by-tsa.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Deaf and Blind Teen Girl Brutally Beaten By TSA Agents at the Memphis Airport"><img height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJKHUpJaIWUwg2Ib40MeZc4dBgBxdI7PkJHjhArLeN03mgWM15ZYaogFm3WSc5DqPqRqj8ldshs_oCBGN3ns_ElAAEdFhelV9X-RwXIzGYlHPvKyBpoYNazQqmj_w9bGrtTuq8H6FZ2CaO/s320/tsa-agents-brutally-beaten-deaf-girl.jpg" width="250" /></a>MEMPHIS, TN -- A teen just released from brain surgery was beaten by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration" target="_blank">Transportation Security Administration</a> (TSA) agents inside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_International_Airport" target="_blank">Memphis International Airport</a> last year, a recent lawsuit alleges.<br /><br /><br /><br />The TSA is listed as a defendant in a suit accusing them of injuring a mentally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability" target="_blank">disabled</a> teen after she was unable to understand or comply with orders at a security checkpoint.<br /><br /><br /><br />Newly surfaced photos show the aftermath of the June 30, 2015 incident, in which agents roughed up 19-year-old Hannah Cohen leaving her bloodied and bruised.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xqfpVWhLz_g" width="500"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To activate this feature, press the "CC" button.</span></div><br /><br />“They wanted to do further scanning; she was reluctant. She didn’t understand what they were about to do,” her mother Shirley Cohen told <a href="http://wreg.com/2016/06/30/disabled-st-jude-patient-sues-airport-and-tsa-after-bloody-scuffle-with-airport-police/" target="_blank">WREG</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br />The lawsuit claims before Hannah had brain tumor surgery at St. Jude’s hospital, she already had “a physical and mental impairment that substantially limit one or more of her life activities.”<br /><br /><br /><br />“More particularly,” the lawsuit continues, “Hannah has damage from radiation and removal of a brain tumor that substantially limits her ability to speak, walk, stand, see, hear, care for herself, learn and work, think, concentrate, and interact with others.”<br /><br /><br /><br />“This substantial limitation is obvious upon sight and was obvious” on the day of the incident, the lawsuit filed in US District Court states.<br /><br /><br /><br />“She’s trying to get away from them,” Hannah’s mother described, “but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. And I looked and there’s blood everywhere.”<br /><br /><br /><br />All the while Shirley was kept from being able to help her daughter, causing her “extreme emotional injury as she watched the personnel assault her daughter,” according to court documents obtained by Infowars.<br /><br /><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.flymemphis.com/airport-police" target="_blank">Memphis International Airport Police Department</a> is also included as a defendant in the suit for “arresting her for no cause.”<br /><br /><br /><br />“Hannah was arrested, booked and on the night she should have been celebrating the end of her treatment, she was locked up in Jail East,” reports WREG.<br /><br /><br /><br />“Here we were with nowhere to go, not even a toothbrush, our bags had gone to Chattanooga,” Shirley said.<br /><br /><br /><br />TSA did not comment on the case, but referred travelers with special accommodations to call their TSA Cares hotline. The Cohens’ are asking for $100,000 in damages.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://wreg.com/2016/06/30/disabled-st-jude-patient-sues-airport-and-tsa-after-bloody-scuffle-with-airport-police/" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>

Deaf/Blind Teen Brutally Beaten By TSA Agents

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Deaf Students Abused By Priests Win $30-Million

<i><b>Deaf News - Deaf students abused by priests at Clercs de St. Viateur win record $30-million settlement in Quebec, Canada.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/02/deaf-students-abused-by-priests-win-30.html" title="Deaf students abused by priests at Clercs de Saint Viateur"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-IOHqE9lZz-lF4Rwuj3tBB-57NesdEhoXtl507b3bxDFVB8GfW3Nd2Jji0rOA-VKn3lLaRXbHxDf0ebhv_0KOphyhQKICR6DkAtVigoQLdvrq940Nesy5t4uPg-yBx0gnnR0ce5N0v7q/s400/deaf-students-abused-by-priests-at-clercs-de-st-viateur.jpeg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><br />MONTREAL, PQ -- For the 150 victims, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_loss" target="_blank">Deaf</a> and severely traumatized, it took decades to come forward with their accounts of sexual abuse at the hands of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerics_of_Saint_Viator" target="_blank">Clercs de Saint-Viateur</a>. <br /><br /><br /><br />But they finally named the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_institute_%28Catholic%29" target="_blank">33 priests and religious staff</a> and five lay people who they say abused them at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_School_for_the_Deaf" target="_blank">Montreal Institute for the Deaf</a>, a boarding-school for young boys run by the <a href="http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/02/17/les-clercs-de-saint-viateur-et-linstitut-raymond-dewar-verseront-30-millions-de-dollars-aux-victimes-dagressions-sexuelles" target="_blank">Clercs</a>, and on Wednesday they were awarded $30 million – by far the largest settlement for sexual assault in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec" target="_blank">Quebec</a> history.<br /><br /><br /><br />At the top of the list is <a href="http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Anthime_Paiement&pid=682065&lng=fr" target="_blank">Father Anthime Paiement</a>, accused of sexual assault by 24 young boys at the Institute. Most of the boys were around 10 or 11 years old at the time; some were as young as seven. Paiement’s obituary in 1998, at the age of 91, said he devoted his entire life to the Deaf, as a teacher and chaplain at the Institute, among other places.<br /><br /><br /><br />Then came <a href="http://www.ccsmm.net/csv2012.html" target="_blank">Brother Philippe Paquette</a>, who 10 victims said repeatedly assaulted them, in the dormitory or the classrooms or priests’ quarters, where he lived from 1949 to 1984.<br /><br /><br /><br />According to his obituary, his tasks included teaching the “little ones,” surveillance, cinema, and discipline. He died in 2009 at the age of 82.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ccsmm.net/csv2012.html" target="_blank">Brother Gérard Barrette</a>, meanwhile, was accused by seven plaintiffs in the class action suit of anal rape, among other things. Perhaps he is still alive.<br /><br /><br /><br />The abuse spanned from 1940 to 1982. Some of the victims were abused over the Christmas holidays. Some were abused throughout their first year at the school on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villeray,_Montreal" target="_blank">St-Laurent Blvd. in Villeray</a> in 1962. Others were assaulted on a regular basis, over their entire stay – up to seven years’ time.<br /><br /><br /><br />The list of abusers also includes the director of the institute, the nurse, the dormitory supervisor, and the priest at the confessional. According to one victim, the boys soon stopped going to confession. Another said he was abused by a priest, and when he sought help at the infirmary, he was assaulted there too.<br /><br /><br /><br />For Robert Kugler, who has represented the victims since the class action lawsuit was launched in 2010, the amount of the award reflects the extent of the abuse and the vulnerability of the victims.<br /><br /><br /><br />“All the victims were handicapped – they were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_loss" target="_blank">Deaf</a> and had difficulty communicating. They were stuck,” said Kugler, of the firm Kugler Kandestin. “It’s simply tragic.”<br /><br /><br /><br />While no amount of money can replace what the victims lost in their lives, Kugler continued, it can help them move forward, get therapy and improve the rest of their lives. <br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clercs_de_Saint-Viateur" target="_blank">The Clercs de Saint-Viateur du Canada</a> will pay $20 million, while the <a href="http://www.raymond-dewar.qc.ca/" target="_blank">Institut Raymond-Dewar</a> – the new name for the Montreal Institute for the Deaf, as of 1984 – will pay $10 million.<br /><br /><br /><br />If divided equally among the 150 victims, the $30 million would amount to $200,000 each.<br /><br /><br /><br />But Kugler expects more victims will likely come forward, now that they have reason to believe it will lead to compensation. And an adjudicator, former Court of Appeals Judge André Forget, will be tasked with interviewing the plaintiffs, in private, to determine whether they deserve the base amount of compensation, 25 per cent more, or 50 per cent more, depending on the gravity of the abuse, and the gravity of the consequences of the abuse. <br /><br /><br /><br />In 2011, the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congr%C3%A9gation_de_Sainte-Croix" target="_blank">Congrégation de Sainte-Croix</a> accepted to pay $18 million to former students who were sexually abused between 1950 and 1991 by members of the order in various schools, including Notre-Dame College in Montreal. <a href="http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/deaf-students-abused-by-priests-at-clercs-de-st-viateur-win-record-30-million-settlement" target="_blank">Read The Full Story</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Related:</b><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2012/12/montreal-institute-for-deaf-ex-students.html">Montreal Institute For The Deaf Ex-Students Allege Horrific Abuses</a><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2012/11/sexual-abuse-children-at-montreal.html">Sexual Abuses Children At Montreal School For The Deaf</a><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2012/10/mea-maxima-culpa-silence-in-house-of-god.html">Mea Maxima Culpa Silence In House Of God</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Related Post:</b> <a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/search/label/Deaf%20Canadians" target="_blank">#Deaf Canadians</a>

Deaf Students Abused By Priests Win $30-Million

Deaf News - Deaf students abused by priests at Clercs de St. Viateur win record $30-million settlement in Quebec, Canada. MONTREAL, PQ -- Fo...

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