ST. CHARLES, Mo. — During a lull in her overnight nursing shift last month, Donna Herter of St. Charles made a Facebook post about her 24-year-old son, Christian Bowers, who has Down syndrome.
“I’ll pay you to be my son’s friend,” it read. “All you have to do is sit with him and play video games in his room.”
She left work, got home and went to bed.
