“But THIS one was for domestic violence”
The domestic violence can wait while he’s locked up in a Nervous Hospital. Trust me Nurse Ratched will make sure he’s not going anywhere. They should have taken him to a hospital first then jail.
I have a friend with two autistic kids, both adults now and she had to deal with this many times. The hospitals won’t take an autistic individual, especially if they are acting out. Her daughter had a breakdown five years ago when she was 15. She was attacking her mom and her brother and putting her head repeatedly through the drywall in their apartment. She called 911. The EMTs and cops came and wouldn’t touch her. They suggested she take her to the hospital down the road. She had her mother come over to watch her son who was 17 at the time and she started on a futile quest to get help. She literally drove her daughter to 4 different hospitals and 2 ‘treatment centers’ here in Indianapolis and was turned down by all of them. They weren’t ‘equipped’ to handle her issues. One was a children’s hospital with a psych ward, and one was mental facility for troubled teens. But because she was autistic no one wanted her.
That was just one of many such nights. It ultimately took the intervention of her state senator putting pressure on child services to get her daughter into the extended care facility that she desperately needed. She is soon to turn 21 and will age out of that facility. She still has the behaviors and there is nowhere she can go because there are no adult facilities in Indiana for autistic individuals with aggressive behaviors.
Her mother could handle her aggression when she was girl, but once she grew to be a teen it became more than she could by herself. Now she’s a full-grown adult. In four months, she will leave a lockdown facility where she has been cared for the last 5 years by full time, 24 hour a day staff backed up by a crisis team. She will be returned to the care of her mother who is supposed to provide the same care, while caring for her severely autistic 21 y/o son, by herself. The psychiatrist at the faculty she’s at now has stated she will, for her own safety and the safety others, need full time institutionalized care at a faculty capable of handling someone with her violence issues. That all ends in 4 months. Her mother is scared to death.