Significant weight loss in children that went largely unnoticed by the facility medical staff, including a 16-month-old baby who lost nearly a third of his body weight over 10 days during a diarrheal disease but was never given IV fluids or sent to an emergency room. (Source)
• A 27-day-old baby who had a seizure from bleeding inside his skull that was missed by the facility on arrival.
• Numerous children who suffered severe finger injuries while confined in a facility that was designed as a medium-security prison for adults.
• Not to mention the trauma every child that are and been in these cages will forever endure. Not to mention them be put up for adoption and never returned to their families. NOT TO MENTION THE MANY ALREADY DEAD CHILDREN.
O’Meara is now a screenwriter and producer who makes monster movies and works for an independent film company. Her continuing admiration (and tattoo) of Patrick — and dismay at the lack of a proper biography — propelled her to begin work on “The Lady From the Black Lagoon” when she was 25. Learning that Patrick had to deal with a serious amount of Hollywood sexism further reinforced her bond with her subject. “I could easily put myself in her shoes,” she writes. “I have the same pair — every woman in film has them. They’re standard issue and they’re uncomfortable as hell.”
