D.C. to Pay $650,000 to Patient Who Gouged Out His Eyes
posted 6:29 am Thu October 11, 2007 - Washington
City officials say that will settle a dispute with the guardian for 55-year-old Frank Harris Jr. Harris' guardian has agreed to drop a $10 million lawsuit accusing the city of failing to give him proper care and the city will halt its bid to collect $2.2 million in medical costs from Harris' guardian.
Harris has schizophrenia and has been committed to the hospital in Southeast Washington since 1973. He has been blind since March 2003 when he used his hands to gouge out his eyes, despite a court order that he be kept in restraints. His family argued that he wasn't being properly supervised.
Latest Comment on D.C. to Pay $650,000 to Patient Who Gouged Out His Eyes
Diplomat
7:01 pm on 10/11/07
I'd rather be dead than live restrained in a nut house for 34 years.
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