Facility accused of not investigating possible patient pregnancy
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005.
Bloomingdale, IL - A nursing home that employed a man now charged with sexually assaulting a severely disabled woman who became pregnant failed to investigate the pregnancy when it first was suspected, a state report shows.
A worker at Alden Village Health Facility for Children and Young Adults said she told a supervisor she suspected the patient’s pregnancy three months before the woman was taken to the hospital and found to be seven months pregnant, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health report released to the Chicago Tribune.
She gave birth just five weeks later on July 20.
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