The weakest pay the price for anemic state oversight
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006.
Seattle, WA - The nursing-home resident was only 50, but Huntington’s disease had robbed her of much of her memory. Still, Luella Longmore was sure of what had happened. She’d been raped on the bathroom floor. It was Jose, the young nursing assistant, she insisted.
Jose S. Hernandez, 32, denied touching her. But Seattle’s First Hill Care Center reported him to police and the Washington Department of Health.
Seattle police started an investigation by taking Longmore to the hospital for a rape exam.
The Health Department didn’t get that far. The agency decided the complaint didn’t warrant an investigation and dismissed it.
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