New Law Adds Protections For Adults In New Jersey With Developmental Disabilities

The Stephen Komninos’ Law, enacted in 2017, went into effect on May 1, 2018. The new law is designed to protect individuals with developmental disabilities who receive services through the New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) from abuse, neglect, and exploitation by caregivers and others, to upgrade crimes committed against such individuals and to improve the quality of investigations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of developmentally disabled individuals. The bill is named after Stephen Komninos, a 22-year-old with intellectual disabilities who died in 2007. Between 2004 and 2007, Stephen suffered numerous incidents of abuse. Stephen was taken by an employee of the South Jersey group home where he lived on a trip to 7-Eleven, where he was left unsupervised against medical orders, choked while eating and died. Stephen’s story is outlined on a Facebook page devoted to the new law, which can be found at…

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