When 32-year-old Jakob Bleul woke up Friday morning at a psychiatric treatment facility in California, he didn’t know what was going to happen to him come 5 p.m.

His mother, Debbie Bleul, said that her son, who has an IQ of 46 and has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome, was nervous when she spoke with him on the phone that morning. Jakob Bleul has been receiving treatment for the last three and a half years at a facility outside Modesto and paid for by the Desert Regional Center, a state of Nevada-run agency that serves people in Southern Nevada who have been diagnosed with intellectual or other developmental disabilities, after receiving a suspended sentence for two misdemeanors.

But that treatment was set to expire Friday and, according to Clark County public defender Christy Craig, Desert Regional Center had no transition plan in place for Jakob Bleul. Craig said at a competency court hearing on Friday that although the Nevada agency knew Bleul’s placement was set to end on Friday and the current facility housing him, California Psychiatric Transitions, sent notices notifying that his treatment was coming to a close, Desert Regional Center did nothing to prepare for his 5 p.m. release despite the fact that he still has an open case in Nevada.

“They’ve said they’re not really dumping him on California … but they’re not going to do anything by the end of business,” Craig said in court.

In an email, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Desert Regional Center, said that the center is working with the facility in California and is “most concerned about the client’s safety.” She said that Jakob Bleul was placed at the treatment center by his mother — his guardian in Nevada at the time — and was allowed by the criminal court to go to California for treatment.

“The Nevada Court terminated the guardianship because the guardians did not file a report and left this client without a guardian,” spokeswoman Chrystal Main said in an email. “The parents moved to California and are seeking a conservatorship (California’s guardianship) which is scheduled for June 18, 2018. Even with the criminal case coming to an end, DRC and the facility will work with the parents until the conservatorship is resolved.”

According to Craig, Desert Regional Center staff said that they were not prepared for Jakob Bleul’s release and also, because his parents recently moved to California, they weren’t sure they should be involved at all anymore. But the parents, Debbie and Peter, said that they only moved to California in the first place because Desert Regional Center told them that there were no other treatment options in Nevada for their son.

On Friday morning, Judge Jennifer Togliatti granted a three-month extension of the treatment and is requiring Desert Regional Center to pay for it, which will allow Jakob Bleul to remain at the California facility for the time being. (Main confirmed that Desert Regional Center will continue to pay for Bleul’s treatment.)

The Central Valley Regional Center in California is in the process of taking over Jakob Bleul’s case, and Debbie Bleul said that they’ve been told the California agency is “close” to approving her son. But Debbie Bleul said that finding a placement for her son has been difficult because he isn’t allowed to talk to girls under his treatment plan.

Still, she said there’s one facility in Pomona that is reviewing her son’s paperwork that could be promising.

“It’s a really nice place,” Debbie Bleul said. “They’re looking over his records.”

Debbie Bleul and her husband now live in Apple Valley, and they’re hoping to find a facility for their son that is close enough so they can visit him on the weekends but not too close that he wants to run away to come see them.

“I said make it about an hour in San Bernardino County so Jake can work on himself and we'll see him on the weekends,” she said.

Mostly, they said they just don’t want Jakob Bleul to end up in the kind of situation he was in when he was at Desert Regional Center for five years. The Bleuls and two other sets of parents of children who were at Desert Regional Center filed a lawsuit in 2014 alleging that the agency’s employees got patients to fight each other and otherwise abused their children. Peter Bleul said that there wasn’t enough evidence to move forward with the case, though.

In 2013, KLAS-TV went undercover into Desert Regional Center — because the center does not allow non-family members to speak with patients — and talked with Jakob Bleul, who detailed allegations of abuse to the TV station, including that staff members staged fights.

“I thought I was coming out to get a snack because I thought, Harry said it's time for snack, so I came out. Brian went around the corner and gave me a black eye,” Jakob Bleul told the TV station at the time.

The TV station also obtained pictures from the parents of the children with chipped teeth, cuts on their faces and bruises on their bodies. The deputy administrator of mental health and developmental services told the TV station at the time that the injuries can result from self-injury, and a state investigator interviewed patients and staff and declared that there was no evidence of abuse.

Debbie Bleul said that they only got their son into Desert Regional Center in the first place because they didn’t know how else to get help for him. After Jakob Bleul scratched his father who was attempting to prevent him from self harm, police told the Bleuls that the only way to help their son might be to press charges against him.

“When he started that head banging on the two by four part of the wall, we couldn't keep him safe at home,” Debbie Bleul said. “The police officers told us this merry go round of headbanging, going to the hospital, getting out in three days or two weeks, will not get help for you unless you press charges. So Peter had a little tiny scratch from when he was restraining Jakob so he wouldn't headbang and they said, ‘Just use that and if you get him in the system, he’ll get help.’”

“It broke our hearts,” she added. “It was very very hard.”

But the Bleuls said their son is doing better in California. Debbie Bleul said that he only bangs his head once or twice a year now, where at Desert Regional Center he had to wear a hockey helmet with three locks on it.

“They didn’t handle him right. They ticked him off and brought out the worst,” Debbie Bleul said.

They’re in the process of getting their conservatorship — a court-appointed designation that will let them take care of Jakob Bleul and make decisions on his behalf — with a hearing scheduled for the middle of June. For now, their son will remain in the treatment facility until August 31 or until he can get transferred to California’s jurisdiction.

They said that their son has been in a one-on-one arrangement with a staff member at the facility because he was so worried about what was going to happen to him on Friday.

“He’s so darn nervous because he didn’t know where he was going,” Debbie Bleul said.