Abuse was caught on camera at Choate Developmental Center. The prosecutor offered plea deals

A police document shows a Choate Mental Health and Development patient’s statement regarding abuse by a facility employee. (Capitol News Illinois illustration. Highlight added to police documents) This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Union County State’s Attorney Tyler Tripp cut a deal with a worker caught on tape beating a resident, allowing the worker to walk free — seven weeks before he filed a federal lawsuit to stop the removal of people with developmental disabilities from a state-operated facility in southern Illinois.

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