Tara O'Leary weighed only 43 pounds when she died on November 10, 2008. The 29 year old was living in a New Jersey Division of Developmental Disabilities sponsor home in Hunterdon County.
Senator Jennifer Beck and Assembly Members Caroline Casagrande and Declan O’Scanlon are sponsoring legislation that would require case managers to provide written reports of their visits, establish a registry of providers who are implicated in incidents of abuse and create a 24 hour hotline for people to report abuse.
Under the legislation, if a person has reasonable cause to believe a developmentally disabled person is being abused they are to report it to the Department of Human Services or they may face six months in prison or a $1,000 fine.
“It is nice to see that her memory is honored with a law that will help prevent other’s with similar disabilities to not suffer the same fate as Tara,” said Tara’s cousin, Little Silver resident Eileen Devlin.
By: Janet Fried
Senator Jennifer Beck and Assembly Members Caroline Casagrande and Declan O’Scanlon are sponsoring legislation that would require case managers to provide written reports of their visits, establish a registry of providers who are implicated in incidents of abuse and create a 24 hour hotline for people to report abuse.
Under the legislation, if a person has reasonable cause to believe a developmentally disabled person is being abused they are to report it to the Department of Human Services or they may face six months in prison or a $1,000 fine.
“It is nice to see that her memory is honored with a law that will help prevent other’s with similar disabilities to not suffer the same fate as Tara,” said Tara’s cousin, Little Silver resident Eileen Devlin.
By: Janet Fried
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