Disabled woman was neglected and abused at Stephenville care home, family alleges
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Minette Firth was shocked when she pulled up at her sister's care home in Stephenville, on the Newfoundland and Labrador's west coast, on July 18.
She had travelled from New Glasgow, N.S. to visit her 46-year-old sister, who has intellectual disabilities and requires 24-hour care. "When we walked up to the house, we could see Allison in the window. She was just walking in circles. There was no TV, no books no nothing. Just walking in circles," recalled Firth. Firth says she knocked on the main door of the two-storey home and two workers came to let her in. When she went to open the door to her sister's basement apartment, it was locked. Allison Decker told her she had been locked in for hours. "You could see Allison was visibly scared. She kept apologising over and over and over. She asked if she was going to be allowed to eat supper with them that day. You could just tell she was really scared," said Firth. Firth and Decker are originally from Three Mile Rock on the Northern Peninsula. Decker, days after she was born, suffered multiple seizures that caused significant brain damage. Firth says as Decker got older, her parents were no longer able to meet her needs.
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