Restraint abuse
Physical restraint and/or Chemical restraints used. Failure to follow legal requirements around the use of restraints. Ventilation used as restraint or as a method of behavior control.
These testimony clips are drawn from interviews conducted by CHBMP with families and survivors. Each clip stands as evidence and remembrance. We share them to honor those who came forward, to seek accountability, and to ensure these experiences are never forgotten.
“"He was restrained. Yes. He was restrained. [...] during the time that he was at Baylor and unable to get the ivermectin via the hospital, he was receiving ivermectin. [...] I would see them giving him more drugs.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"He was restrained. Yes. He was restrained. I forgot to say that. While he was completely out of they had him on a paralytic on multiple sedation sedating drugs. Multiple. There's no way that man could have moved, and yet they still had him restrained... I had asked the nurse one time, you know, how full because he couldn't... and they I asked him, you know, how full, how many cc's or whatever can a bladder hold... I remember the next day, I had asked, you know, have they relieved him?”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"And I couldn't believe what I was hearing. So there's all these nurses, ten of them, standing in front of my dad's window just staring at them. And they're no. None of them have their nametags on. And there's this one nurse that Sarah Grice, the girl that kills her that kills my dad. She's standing there like this, waiting with her hands like this, and Rommel Lontango, who is the nurse practitioner in charge of my dad's case, Rommel Lontango, bald guy, he hands the syringe to Sarah. And I'm thinking to myself, what is going on here? Well, my dad has a pulse of a hundred and twenty two. She injects him. His pulse rapidly starts to decrease, and she started doing the most violent chest compressions I've ever seen in my life. ... my dad was tied in restraints, obviously, because his body was bouncing ten inches off the table. ... the cop starts pushing me out of the ICU, you know, telling me leave right now. ... and then, the nurse turned off all the machines in front of them. ... cause of death, COVID nineteen. It's like they already had it ready to go. Huge cover up. Total cover up.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"the physician taking care of my dad, gave my father four rounds of remdesivir. And on top of that, they tied him in restraints, didn't feed him, and then, put him on a ventilator. And the nurse... is the same nurse that violently ended his life in front of us.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"she calls my mother saying, you know, I had to put your dad in restraints because he's confused why there's tubes in his lungs. Confused. This is a medical doctor who's seventy four years old. There's no reason to be tying someone to their bed, an elderly person like this. But that's what she did. ... I said, well, I think it's a crime you're not letting me see my dad. I don't know what I don't know how much longer the guy's got.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"the physician taking care of my dad, gave my father four rounds of remdesivir. And on top of that, they tied him in restraints, didn't feed him, and then, put him on a ventilator. And the nurse, the one nurse that did all of this is the same nurse that violently ended his life in front of us. Her name is Sarah Grice. Interestingly enough, after this nurse did what she did, she got in her car and drove away fleeing the scene of the crime while still in her makeup, her her Bernie, her gown, her face mask, everything. She was she got the heck out of there.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"my dad was tied in restraints, obviously, because his body was bouncing ten inches off the table. It was like watching someone chainsaw him in half. It was like watching someone stab a knife into his heart. It was the most violent, vicious thing I've ever seen in my life. ... in the final moments of Sarah Grice violently ending my father's life, my father then lifted his chest off the table, his body seizure, and then died in front of my my mom and sister... in this document, it said marked no autopsy needed, cause of death, COVID nineteen. it's like they already had it ready to go. Huge cover up. Total cover up.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"The next thing I remember is I'm waking up from being in the intubate. I'm I'm intubated, but I partly woke up, and I'm tied down. And I don't know what's going on. I don't know who has me. And I remember thinking in my mind, somebody could keep me like this forever if they wanted to. I was totally helpless.”
From the testimony of Catherine I Hoheisel
“"And she goes, well, first of all, you're gonna see that, he he has wrist restraints... I said, my husband is fully sedated. Why are you restraining my husband to the bed?”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"And she leaned over and she whispered to me, that's because they were restraining your husband with the BiPAP mask on his face, on his face down in the bed, which is against the Department of Health rules because you can easily aspirate and die... it created a terrible wound... So it was just my husband was just so, so mistreated, so mistreated... I said, is he dehydrated? He said, massively. I said, that's because doctor Ku removed all of his IV fluids over the weekend.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"I want her to stay here additional seven days, and I want the antibiotic card to get antibiotics. [...] but I didn't see any antibiotics at all. [...] my niece did observe that they were really rough with her, and then she had a broken arm, and they were always can't manhandling her, and she would always yell. [...] they kept her so drugged up. She wasn't able to to speak. [...] every time I went up there, her food tray was sitting off to the side far away from bed that her bed never touched.”
From the testimony of Beverly Kwiatkowski
“"Well, he was restrained. He didn't know us. They said they had to drug him because he was agitated.”
From the testimony of Lance T. Chamberlin
“"So he says, nope. I've decided. And I know that doctor Ireland was in there at the time before I came, and he convinced him to get intubated... he was crawling on the bed like he was trying to get off the bed, but he couldn't move. They had him in restraints. And he was he just had the scary look on his face. So I went over to soothe him, and I said, Kim, go get a nurse. So she went and got a nurse, and the nurse came in and said, oh, well, we'll just give him some more. And she just gave him the fentanyl...”
From the testimony of Timothy Alan Meyers
“"I just know I was coming to, and I had this hose in my throat. And I just was looking around, and I looked over at this window into my room, and there's three nurses standing there. And all I all I remember is everything started closing in on me. It got darker and darker, and and that was telling me, Eric, you gotta do something with this hose. You gotta pull this thing out or you're gonna die. Well, I was strapped in the bed with my hands up. Thank God. My hands were up. And I looked at both of my hand because I had my legs. I could barely lift them up. And these nurses were over there laughing. There was three of them, two two female and a male. They were just laughing, carrying on, and I don't know what they were laughing at.”
From the testimony of Eric Seitz
“"They said this is for your safety so you don't fall out of bed. My rails were up and, you know, that's so I couldn't get out of bed. And you were tied to bed and you were on paralytics?”
From the testimony of Eric Seitz
“"So they had to they restrained him because it's just that was his natural way of wanting to fight to stay alive.”
From the testimony of Phillip Thomas
“"But I couldn't move. I couldn't they had me on some kind of, like, paralysis, some kind of drugs that I couldn't move my legs. I could only move from the waist up. You couldn't speak either. I couldn't speak very well. No. But they had me they were so irritated with me because I just constantly pressing the call button because Yeah. They're just trying to get people's help. They they, because I couldn't move. Right. They, they covered the windows to the I see my room...Finally, I asked one nurse. I said, can I just go leave here? Because I was terrified in that hospital.”
From the testimony of Charlene MacCallum
“"they eventually just strapped her down and prevented her from moving.”
From the testimony of Charlene MacCallum
“"I do, feel like there was at one point, they restrained him during the night, and they said because he was a fall risk, but they they couldn't confirm if he fell. They couldn't confirm, you know, why they felt they they needed to restrain him.”
From the testimony of James V. Lamb, III
“"I mean, they've got you fastened down so that you don't rip things out, I guess. You were you were restrained? Yeah. So all I could do was I wiggled I felt I could wiggle my feet because I couldn't touch my face or wave or, you know, couldn't speak because they had the tube in me. So I remember taking my feet and just bouncing them because I figured I'm alive. I'm alive. And if they look, they're gonna see. Oh, come, come, come. I'm alive.”
From the testimony of Diane K. Corby
“"I know that last evening had to be some kind of torture with the scene that they described in hysterical even the nurse was hysterical. She wasn't acting that I could tell, you know. She was like, I don't know. Like, they were gonna have to restrain him, and sure enough, that's exactly what they did. They tied him down to the bed. ... I knew that he didn't go from trying to jerk the face mask off to serene. That doesn't happen.”
From the testimony of Steve Fields
“"I asked, the nurse that had shown us the labs to please inform the doctor that this patient had pneumonia and needed to be treated right away. And she said, sure, she'd do that, but no doctor came. So twelve hours later ... I got an infectious disease guy on the call at two o'clock in the morning ... the nurses got up and walked out of the room, completely abandoning my roommate ... they called the security, had me tied to my bed ... If you're gonna abandon that guy, I have no idea what's going on with my care, but I want out... he decided to, Baker Act me, which means he decided that I was a danger to myself or others.”
From the testimony of Suzanne Moore
“"They did tie her hands up. She was restrained.”
From the testimony of Brenda Kay Campbell