A nonprofit affiliate of the Brooklyn Diocese failed to protect a 24-year-old developmentally disabled man allegedly attacked under its care — then told outraged family members that he received his injuries by “walking into a door frame,” a bombshell lawsuit claims.
A lawyer for Jorge Cabello said HeartShare Human Services cleaned the man’s clothes after he was apparently pummeled and suffered a smattering of injuries on Sept. 7, 2012, but couldn’t tell family members how he had sustained a black eye and a facial fracture.
When Cabello — who has Down syndrome and has the mental acuity of a 6-year-old — returned home from the HeartShare program on MacDonough St. that Friday “he was crying hysterically, he had a black eye and red markings on the right side of his face,” the lawsuit states.
