A nurse and two therapy aides ate with nine young patients.

"She was an extremely caring and concerned therapy aide."

Abruptly a crowd gathered - all patients, and not a therapy aide in sight.

Just last week, he jumped a therapy aide.

They knew because he had attacked them - two psychiatrists, a nurse, a social worker and a therapy aide in two years' time.

On Saturday about 5:15 P.M., he was with 19 other patients being escorted between floors by two therapy aides when he stepped out of line.

It had turned pernicious, like those of the nurses and therapy aides who hated crips.

They include secretaries and janitors who work for state agencies, laborers on road maintenance crews and therapy aides in state mental institutions.

"If the patient comes back, fine," said a therapy aide who refused to be quoted by name for fear of jeopardizing her job.

The therapy aides say that under the settlement, doctors and social workers should share the burden of escorting patients.