Freeing Teresa

Freeing Teresa is a true story about sisters, disability, and standing up to family. It is a searing account of how paternalistic attitudes ripped one family apart. But it is also about resilience and finding the courage to protect the ones you love. Franke James objected when she heard her siblings' plan to put her sister, Teresa Heartchild, into a nursing home. "What about Teresa's human rights?" But she was told that Teresa, who was born with Down syndrome, had been declared incapable an