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Green Bedroom

Kathleen Fletcher

I am writing a book about my mentally retarded brother that was put in Petersburg Training School in Petersburg Virginia. He was more than abused, he was tortured. Raped in a mop closet several times by a Mr. Williams, a black man that worked there. This certainly appears to be an isolation room. When I was five I was lifted up by my Father and peered into a small window in the door. My Brother was in a padded room that was 6x6 in size. Why I was shown this I have no idea. I am 50 and it still haunts me. I am looking for other families that may have insight to the atrocities these children of God endured.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten