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A Georgia Behavioral Health Center Is Being Sued for Allegedly Endangering a Mentally Disabled Man

The family of a mentally disabled man is suing a Georgia behavioral health system, saying its employees forced him onto a bus to Atlanta where he wandered the streets and suffered from hypothermia.

The lawsuit was filed this week against Riverwoods Behavioral Health in Clayton County and the company that operates it. 

Mario Scott went to a hospital in Jackson, Georgia, in January to have his medication refilled, and a doctor filled out paperwork that had him sent to Riverwoods, according to the lawsuit.

Staff members asked sheriff’s deputies to try and locate Scott’s mother, who cared for him, but she wasn’t home because she was hospitalized for COVID-19 at the time, the lawsuit states.

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