76 developmentally disabled clients of the state died in cases involving abuse or neglect over seven years
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Then, well after dark, they would return to the car to drive Dougie back to Stratford, turning the car onto the winding access road to the Ella Grasso Center, where he lived with about 45 other men and women with developmental disabilities.
That's how Rose Landino imagines the day. Instead, she spent most of her birthday in her compact New Haven home, somber and teary against an incongruous background of birthday decorations on the wall and dangling from the ceilings.
"Dougie's death it is so senseless," she says, wiping a tear as she sits on a couch a few feet from a small memorial she has built for her brother.
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A Life Changing Loss
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But he had an endearing innocence and a longing for interaction. He would stand at the sidewalk and ask passersby the spelling of their names, then write them down on his ever present pad of paper.
"And if he didn't see you, say, for a year and you showed up, he would have still remembered you and would still know how to write your name and your last name," Landino said. "He was a very smart boy. He may have been mentally retarded, but let me tell you: this kid was so smart. So smart."
When he wasn't writing names on his pad of paper, he'd write on shopping bags his mother would save. He wrote on his sisters' album covers, and on the labels in the center of records.
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And then came Oct. 3, 1994.
A few weeks shy of Douglas's 32nd birthday,[url=http://www.cheapnfljersey-outlet@#$%&/]cheap jerseys[/url], Rose Davis suffered a heart attack and died. She was 56. Landino said her father wasn't equipped to care for Douglas, and his three sisters were all married and working. She said there was no viable option other than placing him at the Ella Grasso Center.
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He did well for years; there was even talk of having him move to a supervised apartment in the community with other developmentally disabled men. But it never happened, and after September 2003,[url=http://www.oakleyvaultsunglasses.us@#$%&/]oakleys[/url], it never would.
Cited For Neglect
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"He dropped one day 60 times," Landino said, recounting notes from Douglas' medical records, which she obtained years after his death. Once, during dinner, his muscles gave out and he slumped face down into his food.

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