A pair of Iowa therapy workers is accused of trapping people with special needs in a basement while refusing to give them their prescribed medications.
Praise Gahn, 22, and Zarkpa Green, 44, used a metal bar to barricade the adults in the basement of a home operated by the local nonprofit Balance Autism in Polk County, according to a criminal complaint obtained by local NBC affiliate WHO and local CBS affiliate KCCI.
Court records reviewed by Law&Crime show that the two women were booked into the Polk County Jail last week on charges of dependent adult abuse – serious misdemeanor and wanton neglect of dependent adult – serious misdemeanor…