Hello, I am Veneta Greene, a 77 year old retired educator with a 36 year old African American son who has a mental health diagnosis. He loves mathematics, science, historical and, religious studies. On the first day of COVID-19 lockdown in California, my son, Daryl Greene, ran out of medication and my husband and I could not get his prescription refilled anywhere. The governor mandated a lockdown for the elderly to be locked down. The only place we thought our son would be safe and get his medication was to get him in the hospital for a few days. San Bernardino Community Hospital was the nearest hospital to get him in a safe place. We arrived there about 7 PM and the security said we had to call the police to get him in. I did call the police and stressed that he needed to get back on his medication. The police wrote the report and exaggerated the statement beyond info I reported to make him appear suicidal. He was not suicidal, and he had not given me any indication of that. Even though I explain to the doctor, I only brought him to get him back on medication and for him to be in a safe place. My son has been locked down from that day to the present. Daryl reported daily about abusive treatment he was receiving at San Bernardino Community Hospital. We were not able to see Daryl at all for an entire year. The day he called reporting he was body slammed by a security guard, given two shots, and he was told this is Jim Crow treatment. The attitudes of the public guardian, patient, advocate, and other staff members were toxic towards the family members of Daryl especially when the parents filled numerous complaints with the investigation for the department of health in San Bernardino, California. My son had not committed a crime, but he was treated like a criminal, and isolated from his family even though the parents had filed to get Conservatorship. The Conservatorship was given to the public guardian without any opportunity for any family member receiving it. The parents continue to file for consecutive Conservatorship. At the end of year one, our son was transferred to another lockdown facility in Sylmar Health and Rehabilitation Center in Sylmar California located next-door to a liquor store in Los Angeles county. This was painful to Daryl, his father, his mother, and siblings. Both parents kept close daily contact with Daryl and both experienced excessive impact of stress with toxic atmosphere. Our son was in lockdown, and we cannot have a private conversation with our son. Each visit, a security guard was sitting next to us, and could hear what was being said to Daryl. Daryl’s‘s father died November 2, 2024 and the callous and indifferent public guardian did not let Daryl attend the funeral in person even though the judge has ordered it. There is a 12 page document substantiating the abuse of Daryl and the negligence of supervision at Sylmar Rehabilitation Center but he is still held in lockdown in that place. He has been denied the opportunity to take online classes to enhance his education. He’s denied job preparation. He’s denied Christian counseling. He’s denied ministerial training from pastors. He is denied private conversations with parents and family and the public garden has an Irrevocable Burial Trust on my son. The reported incidents of body slamming by guards, verbal racial slurs, attacks by other patients, excessive shots for control, no accountability for money on his books or clothes given to him shows no interest in helping my son live and overcome. In June 2024, I had heart failure and surgery and I did not want to leave him in the hands of the State of California. Thank you for reading my story. I will use all donations for my son’s Overcoming victory, for legal fees of attorneys, for expert witnesses, for a psychiatrist, for Christian, Counseling, Christian mentorship, his education, and residential care. Please share the story with others.
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