MOULTRIE, Ga.
The boy clenched his fist and stood by the window, watching a heavy rain in the overgrown yard outside.
Five months ago-year-
Lao and his father fled the death threat in Guatemala and sought asylum in the United States.
Instead, the Border Patrol sent his father to an immigration prison and adonas to a children's shelter in Chicago.
Now, six days after their reunion on July 24, his father was sitting in a shabby shotgun house where they shared with four relatives, asking Adonias what happened during the 10 weeks they separated.
He knows that there are allegations that addonas has been injected with something that makes him sleepy when he misbehaves-the state and federal authorities are investigating the allegations, but it's hard
The shelter conducted its own investigation and firmly denied any misconduct, and the boy's medical record-provided by his lawyer with the permission of his parents-did not inject anything except the vaccine.
However, before his release from Casa Guadalupe, an independent psychological assessment found that he "showed signs of trauma, especially (a toy)syringe.
In the dispute, the records provide a clear portrait of a child's painful journey during the separation of the family.
The case in Adonia has become a symbol of concerns about the treatment of thousands of migrant children, especially those who have been taken away from their parents. S. -
Mexico border during Trump administration
The family separation policy is implemented.
There have been allegations in recent weeks that 6-year-old and a 14-year-
Two elderly people at Arizona shelters and a federal judge ordered the Texas shelter to provide shelter for troubled children and to stop giving them mental medications without a court order or with the consent of their parents.
If Adonia is under anesthesia, he wants to know that his father is 30 years old. year-
Old bricklayer who asked not to be named for fear of being deported. But the 43-
Pound Boy with Bible name and residence
Buzz cut did not want to talk about his time at Casa Guadalupe.
As he stared outside, tears poured out of his long dark eyelashes.
Suddenly he raised a small fist and hit the glass hard.
"Adonia, no," said his father . "
But the boy knocked on the glass again. “Adonias, no. ”Punch. Punch. Punch.
The boy cried and said, "I'm still too sad . "
"I want to stay alone.
His father recalled that Adonias screamed and waved his fist at border patrols when they were separated in a detention facility in Arizona.
As night fell, the boy and his father were 2,000 miles apart when Adonia arrived at Guadalupe.
The Chicago shelter, one of more than 100 institutions across the country, has signed contracts with the federation to care for migrant children.
Many people like Casa Guadalupe, founded a few years ago, aim to accommodate thousands of unaccompanied minors who come to the border alone each year until they can reunite with relatives.
But under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, these shelters suddenly swelled and more than 2,500 children were deprived of their rights from their parents.
Some of these shelters are privately run, but are supervised by the refugee placement office of the Health and Human Services Department and have long been plagued by allegations of physical and sexual abuse.
HHS says it has a "zero"
A policy of tolerance for all forms of abuse in its shelters ".
"Our focus is always on the safety and best interests of every child," the agency said in a statement . ".
"ORR takes any allegations of abuse or neglect seriously, conducts investigations and takes appropriate action.
"But the dispute over family separation highlights new allegations, including complaints about drugs taken by children held in shelters.
I'm still too sad.
I want to be a person on April 16, a few days after the implementation of "zero tolerance", and the coalition of civil rights organizations and legal clinics requires federal judges to take action against the Shiloh Treatment Center, claiming that shelters near Houston often give migrant children "chemical drugs straight-
A jacket for psychiatric drugs and calming injections "to control their behavior.
After more than a dozen children in Hilo said they were served with drugs that made them sleepy, dizzy and disgusting, the United StatesS.
District Judge Dolly Ji ordered Orr last week to obtain parental consent or court order before prescribing psychotropical drugs, unless in an emergency.
"When we try to contact a parent or guardian about the treatment procedure, by definition (
These children are)
"Under the supervision of ORR, ORR has legal power to make medical decisions," a HHS spokesperson said . ".
Neha Desai, director of immigration at the National Youth Legal Center, is one of the organizations involved in the case, and she said that since then, she has learned that children in Central America are now not only in Hilo, and in other shelters, there are symptoms of withdrawal of psychotropic drugs.
Desai said the children were deported without "warnings about how to wean or how to transition to other health care ".
"In the case of ahem, the records provided by his lawyer with the permission of his parents rarely show the medical care provided by the older shelter.
On Monday night, he was alone and arrived at Guadalupe's house in fear and confusion.
"The father was detained by ICE," said an initial shortlist . ".
"There is no contact number for Minor.
"Participants reported that he would not feel safe without his parents," his safety assessment wrote . ".
"Minor reported that he needed (s)
Reunite with his father, "said a summary of the case.
In a group of houses on the outskirts of Chicago, adonius was weighed and weighed-he was 3 feet and 7 inch-and asked about his medical history.
According to a health questionnaire, he told the staff that he was not allergic and was taking cold medicine-because he coughed during his trip to the United States, and his father later said that he had been vaccinated.
But, two days later, when Adonia went to see the shelter doctor, she authorized him to "receive the child Benadryl required for allergic symptoms every six hours.
"It is not clear from his medical records whether Arjen has received this medicine that will make the child sleepy.
Doctor Lauren Seve also signed an Adonias vaccine.
On May 24, three days after his arrival, 12 days before the shelter contacted his parentsyear-
Old has been shown to have been vaccinated with eight vaccines, including the flu vaccine.
A month later, he was vaccinated five more.
A spokesman for the non-profit organization Heartland Alliance, which operates Casa Guadalupe and eight other shelters in the Chicago area, said, "in the absence of medical records, ORR requires us to vaccinate all the required vaccines for children.
According (
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Children receive two vaccinations without medical injuries.
"According to medical records, on one occasion, adonas was taken to the emergency room because of an ear infection, for which he was served with ear drops and amoxicillin syrup.
And made him a chest X.
Ray returned to health because of a cough.
In his medical records, the boy's grief and anger can be seen.
"Minors report that he sometimes feels sad on the show because of adjustments and loss of his father and mother," said a form . ".
Several accident reports described him fighting with other boys and then crying in the room.
According to a report, "you are not my mother, this is not my home," he told a female shelter employee in Spanish after a disaster.
According to the record, in the lessons he shared with other children-many of whom were also separated from their parents-he became disruptive.
But nothing in the file can explain two older Brazilian boys to the Washington Post and The New York Times that they saw what happened to Adonia in Casa Guadalupe
You are not my mother. this is not my home almost every day. The person we call the "Doctor" will be in class after Adonia starts misbehaving or is not calm, the doctor will give him a shot and let him calm down and fall asleep right away, diego magales, 10, said in an affidavit provided to state investigators.
Diego also told the Post that he broke his arm at the shelter but was not seen by the doctor but by X-
Ray was temporarily assigned an actor. An X-
According to Diego's lawyer Jesse Braith, Ray, who was filmed after his release, did not take a break, but did develop inflammation in the injured area.
Heartland Alliance reported the allegations to the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services shortly after being contacted by The Post reporter.
In July 31, the nonprofit said that an internal survey included interviews with employees, as well as extensive reviews of video clips in classrooms and public areas, no evidence was found in support of Diego's broken arm or the condition of the Arab Emirates.
The group said the vaccine was vaccinated by medical personnel in another building and that the syringes were not available to other staff.
"We believe we have done a thorough investigation," said Evelyn Diaz, president of Heartland . ".
But Amy Maldonado, a lawyer for Adonia, said Heartland's response sounded like "defending the shelter, not investigating.
"We have multiple child witnesses," she said, noting that Heartland did not interview any children and that the injection may not have been captured by the camera.
The most serious complaint against Casa Guadalupe took place on 2015, before the anger of Adonia, when 15-year-
An 11-year-old boy received oral sex. year-
Old boys with a history of trauma and abuse, according to state records.
The older boy also tried to have anal sex with the younger boy.
In a statement, Heartland noted that in the past five years, its shelter has placed 15,000 children and "reported sensitive information about underage children without background, then it is short-sighted and wrong to use it to define our work.
"* The mother of the Arab Republic in Guatemala learned about drug abuse charges from Maldonado.
She said she had trouble contacting her son at the shelter for weeks, but after the allegations surfaced, she suddenly had a long video chat with her son.
But when she spoke to adonius, the boy who was always energetic, like his favorite character moggli, seemed a little slow and tired to race with friends in the woods of Guatemala.
"Mami, they poured water on my face and woke me up to talk to you," according to his mother . ".
When she asked him why he was so tired in the afternoon, she said he replied, "they vaccinated me and made me sleepy.
"Then the boy began to doze off on the phone.
While Maldonado was trying to figure out what had happened to her client, she was also trying to reunite him with his father, who was still detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau, all before the July 26 deadline set by federal judges.
In July 19, she asked an external psychologist in the heart zone to be assessed by adonius.
Mami, they poured water on my face and woke me up to talk to you.
They gave me a vaccine, and during the assessment, Adonia poisoned other toy animals, including people, with a toy snake, which made me sleepy.
When he found a toy syringe, the psychologist wrote, Adonias "was observed to have a strong physiological response because his eyes were wide open and looked sluggish, he pressed the injection rhythmically over and over again, which made him nervous. . .
Seems to be free.
The psychologist concluded: "Adonias" shows the subject of injury, is isolated, fearful and captured, does not understand why he is with others, but has no parents. ".
"He did show significant signs of being triggered by a syringe, which is not typical at his age.
Maldonado said she also tried to draw blood to check for traces of the drug.
But before she arranged, the boy was released and flew to Texas to reunite with his father.
* A storm has passed, and the storm has rattled the thin-built house, and now Adonia is walking barefoot through the puddles it left behind. The 5-year-
When he poured the color of chocolate milk on his cousin, the old man giggled.
"Donnie, come and talk," said his father, approaching from a small porch with his cell phone, and the boy's grandfather was online.
But yadonas glared coldly.
"There is no gracias," he replied . "
"He didn't want to talk," his father said on the phone, echoing what he had told the boy's mother.
Adonias told a Post reporter that his time at the shelter was only there.
When asked if he missed his father, he nodded.
"He was sad when he called me," he said . ".
"Because I was in the children's prison, he was in the adult prison.
When asked if he had received medical treatment, Adonias said he had received "vaccines" or "multiple times" in the clinic and in the classroom at the shelter ".
"They gave me one here, one here, and one here," he repeated, pointing to his arms and hands.
"Then I won't get up.
He said he got the vaccine so he "slept during the day" because I didn't want to sleep at night . ".
He said he missed many things about the shelter: Slides, football matches, his Brazilian friends Diego, Diogo and Leonardo, and the teachers who taught him bilingual songs.
But he didn't like to talk about it, he said, "because of the vaccine.
"When Adonia reunited with his father at the Port Isabel Detention Center in southern Texas, volunteers from Catholic Charities offered to let them spend the night in nearby shelters.
According to his father, "Papi, I don't want to go," the boy said after hearing the word "sanctuary.
"They had a lot of needles there.
He is not just afraid. He was furious.
At the Atlanta airport, Adonia collapsed in the terminal building and refused to go with his father and said loudly that he did not love him.
"In the first few days, he will easily get angry and start shaking," his father recalled . ".
Slowly, the boy seems to be getting better and better.
But the game he played was darker than before.
He has a new interest in knives and machetes.
"This is how he is, because they locked him up," his father said . ".
"I would rather they send us back than let him finish this way.
As he stood on the porch near the American flag, his son was sitting in a motor toy car, starting the engine and honking.
"Papi," said Adonia, glancing down the yellow car from the high porch.
"I went straight in the car.
"I am Quero Morrell," added the boy calmly . ". “I want to die.
The wind blew the tall grass.
The father said nothing, just stretched out his feet and wouldn't let the car fall.