Re: Autistic man dies in hot van in US suburb

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That's a poor excuse, that he didn't speak. They should have known to check the van thoroughly not just for him but for anyone, things someone might have left, or even signs of sickness like someone having thrown up.

Calls to mind those "hospitals" the rich of England used to have in the 1800's to early 1900's. Crazy or sickly relations sometimes ended up there, were kept in poor conditions, malnourished, etc. Eventually they'd just die, natural causes of course, like pneumonia caught while being taken for air during a rainstorm, things like that.

In a message dated 7/27/2010 7:36:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

An autistic young man who didn't speak was left in a scorching van at a residential treatment home, where his lifeless, overheated body was found more than five hours after his small group returned from an amusement park.