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They drove Matty to the children's psychiatric unit of McLean Hospital in Belmont. Terry rode with Matty in the rear of a police cruiser, Calvin and Mitch Tojian tailing their cars. Matty slept against his mother's shoulder all the way. |
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Because of the severity of the attack, Matty was released in custody of Dr. Tojian, who assured the investigating officers that Matty needed immediate professional attention. Meantime, Bobby Gorawlski was taken by ambulance to Emerson emergency, his mother screaming that she would press charges, sue the Hazzards' asses off for damage. At the moment that was the least of their worries. |
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McLean looked nothing like a hospital and everything like a New England college campus. Located on hundreds of rolling green acres twelve miles west of Boston, the place consisted of a dozen or more huge Victorian and colonial homes originally designed for wealthy mental patients. The one exception was the children's centera squat, cubical structure with plastic bubble-light ports on the roof. The unit housed, schooled and treated a few dozen children, many of whom had suffered some form of sexual, physical and/or drug abuse. They ranged in age from five to seventeen; they were racially diverse; they came from all over. And they shared one fundamental characteristic: rage. It was where they checked Matty in for four days of observation and testing. |
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After he was medicated and put to bed, a resident pediatric psychiatrist, Dr. Don Givens, reviewed possible procedures Matty might be put through, depending on their observations. Rage in |
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