Actually I think it is totally disgusting what has happened to children and others at the hands of INSANE people. IN WESTBOROUGH.. GRAFTON And WORCESTER Mass. were STATE Hospitals...In the 70's A few friends and I did a tour of Worceter State hospital.(the sight is still there...It is U-MASS now) There in the basement of the Hospital were the places of so called HELP for (Mental) people.....Actually this was done at the hands of WHO was RUNNING WHAT? ANYWAY there were all kinds of divices for the (INsane) including hand cuffs built into the walls to hang you by your hands to SHUT you up...Then there were TABLES....with ELECTRONIC DEVICES to SHOCK you back to reality....There was all kinds of TORTURE implements there....FOR your HEAD.It really looked like something from a BORIS KARLOFF MOVIE...(Frankingstein) Then at the time GOVERNOR WELD (governor of Mass)stepped in and closed them all down....He put ALL of them on Social Security and Food Stamps and sent them out on the streets of Massachusettes....It was not a pretty site because My mother and sister were being treated as OUT patient and my sister MET a criminaly insane there and married him AND that totally destroyed our family because that thing my sister married talked my mother and sister AND SUZZANE RUSSO a criminally insane with the LOCAL POLICE DEPTARTMENT.. into NOT taking the medication that would make them NORMAL.BECAUSE he said it was a tracking mechanism of the GOVERNMENT to take medication....SO now the CRIMINLY INSANE were put to the Streets of MASS...and Governor Weld at the time PUT a pretty bundle in his pocket and if I remember right he left office early and headed for Mexico....(I wonder why??) Anyway they say there is ONE bad apple in every tree...I can count 3 in mine... Maureen >From: "" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MAWORCES] Re: Lyman School >Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:16:51 -0500 > >There is a new book out about the Westborough Lyman School.The author wrote >me >below about it. He was there in 1950s. >Remember I have the only web site for the "bad boys" school. >Dick > > > > > I have written a book about Lyman School and the YSB, etc. > > > > It is due to be released within the next month or two. It's > > > > called "Abominable Firebug" and it's being published by > > > > iUniverse. It will be available at all the major book- > > > > stores and an ISBN number has already been assigned. > > > > > > > > It has a section written by Bob Brown, the Protestant > > > > Chaplain of many years. As with most of the boys who > > > > graduated from Lyman School, it was a good experience. > > > > However, the YSB Detention Center in Roslindale was > > > > a horrific place of child abuse and child rape. I > > > > cover this in my book as well. > > > > > > > > Once it's published, I will get a bunch and send them > > > > to some interested persons so if you guys keep in touch, > > > > you might get a copy, signed by the author! > > > > > > > > Later, I need to take a work-break now! >Richard > > > >==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >Worcester GenWeb has many Resources >Check it out!! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

Hi Maureen, As Ii told you in an other letter I lived in Westboro for many years and we were very familiar with both Lyman School and Westboro State hospital. My Mother in law worked at the hospital for years as did many friends. But the Lyman School was a good thing for many of the homeless and kids that were not bad but got no attention or guidance at home. we used to take some of the boys in for holiday dinners and picnics etc. because my husband and I were active in youth sports and activities. The boys from Lyman school were allowed to partake in these things. We never had a bad experience and these kids we met were not bad kids. They wanted attention and love, to be recognized as who they were. Some had done no more than refuse to go to school every day. I think the state of Ma. did a pretty good job taking care of these kids, God knows what would happen if they were left at home with so called parents. All state hospitals have nightmare stories, but way back Westboro took in not only mentally ill but people terminally ill who had no money to go to the hospital. My great grandmother had terminal cancer and she was mentally fine, she was in Westboro state and died there in August of 1922. When my older boys were teen's in the 70's one of the Lyman School buildings was opened for the kids to go roller-skating every weekend and the kids loved it, gave them all something to do with their friends. When the Boston Strangler was put in there many in Westboro were afraid he would escape and harm local women, but I never heard of any state hospital escapees harming anyone in town. Helen

When my son was in nurses training a few years ago he had to be assigned a patient, at Worcester State Hospital on Belmont Hill and it was a person who had done very bad things that was his patient and if he ever got out would have been a threat to women all over. So they still have dangerous mental patients in some building/buildings at the Belmont Hill site. This was in the past 5 years! Helen