{"id":8524,"date":"2011-07-18T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:52:10","slug":"cerebral-palsy-worker-accused-of-taunting-blind-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"Cerebral Palsy Worker Accused Of Taunting Blind Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; An employee of a Long Island cerebral palsy center has been accused of taunting a blind, wheelchair bound man by tilting and twisting his chair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory Richard, Jr.<\/strong>, of Roosevelt, surrendered to police on a charge of endangering the welfare of an incompetent person.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 21-year-old defendant worked as a staff member at the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County. They say he put the 31-year-old victim in &#8220;fear of his safety&#8221; on June 21 when he twisted the chair while making reference to a roller-coaster ride.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he had taunted the man in a similar fashion at least once before.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was not injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; An employee of a Long Island cerebral palsy center has been accused of taunting a blind, wheelchair bound man by tilting and twisting his chair. Gregory Richard, Jr., of Roosevelt, surrendered to police on a charge of endangering the welfare of an incompetent person. Police say the 21-year-old defendant worked as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}