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Three years after The Independent first published a damning investigation into the Huntercombe Group Hospitals, new court documents reveal fresh claims that children were subject to inhumane, degrading and abusive treatment in ‘prison-like’ units - as families take legal action against 35 doctors. Rebecca Thomas reports
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After apparently being subjected to a “brutal regime” of force-feeding and physical restraint, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly left wheelchair bound and incontinent within days of being admitted to a scandal-hit mental health unit.
