1 Comments Posted by Kamuy

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A friend of mine told me that when he was a child of about 7 or 8, his mother worked at Pennhurst. He and his brother used to rought house and call each other names, "retard, stupid". His mother was so fed up with her 2 boys one day that she took them to work with her and put them on one of the "low grade" wards and left them there for the day. He said it was an experience he will never forget. He saw first hand the fesses on the wall and patients, most were nude at one time or the other.

On a better note, she also used to bring patients home for holidays. Things like that were easier back then, law suits were not lurking behind every good deed.

Also, Phantom if your still lurking around, please stop destroying Pennhurst with your immature graffitti. Most of us go there to take in the history and explore things we are trying to understand, differences in cultural acceptance, lost childhoods, historic buildings, and people like you feel the need to ruin everything in your path. Why?