Treatment of man at Brisbane’s Forensic Disability Service referred to Queensland’s human rights watchdog – ABC News
A complaint has labelled the treatment of the man with an intellectual disability as “cruel, inhuman and degrading”.
Concerns about the “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of a man with an intellectual disability has prompted a complaint against the Queensland government to the state’s human rights watchdog.
Key points:
- A complaint had been lodged with Queensland’s human rights watchdog over the treatment of a man with an intellectual disability
- The man has spent 11 years at Brisbane’s Forensic Disability Service after being charged with serious offences in 2012
- He was declared unfit to stand trial and his charges were withdrawn but he fears he will die in the facility.
Four Corners this week obtained audio and footage of the man in his 30s, known by the pseudonym Adrian, who has spent the past 11 years, mostly in seclusion in a locked unit with a caged courtyard, inside Brisbane’s Forensic Disability Service (FDS).
The medium-security 10-bed facility was set up to detain people who have been charged with offences but found unfit to stand trial because of an intellectual or cognitive disability.
The people contained have not been found guilty of a criminal offence or sentenced to a defined period of detention.
Adrian, who also has a chromosomal disorder and was emotionally, physically and sexually abused as a child, was charged with serious offences in 2012.
He was declared unfit to stand trial, with his charges withdrawn and transferred to the FDS.
In audio revealed by Four Corners yesterday, he said he will maybe “die here”.
“People up top, taking human rights away from everyone here … they’re taking every single one away,” he said.
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