The guardian of a mentally disabled person blames a Belleville hospital for allowing the man to be repeatedly raped at its facility.
A lawsuit was filed July 23 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against St. Elizabeth's Hospital and an unknown person identified only as "Criminal Joe."
The guardian claims he brought the mentally disabled person, who is severely retarded and has the mental capacity of a six year old, to St. Elizabeth's in June 2009 because of behavior problems.
When the guardian dropped the mentally disabled man off at the hospital, St. Elizabeth's promised to provide him with quality care and treatment and assured the guardian it would provide appropriate oversight and place the man into a psychiatric ward, according to the complaint.
According to the complaint, St. Elizabeth's allegedly placed the man into a room in the psychiatric ward with a rapist and failed to supervise the men, the suit states.
The guardian seeks a judgment of more than $200,000, plus costs.
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Guardian Claims Mentally Disabled Man Was Attacked in Pyschiatric Ward
3 comments:
The guardian has to share some of the responsibility, for sure, and should not get an award to turn into billing fees!
Who will reap the reward of this suit? Certainly not the ward.
What happened is more than awful but I'd feel better about it if the ward's lawyer made a statement that the proceeds are going to be used to secure better living arrangements and comforts for the victim (ward).
After reading this I thought why did it take this mother from June 2009 until July 23 2010 to file this Case. I think someone really needs to do a very good back ground cheeck on this Mother. Check criminal and civil cases and past reports from DFS and check for past abuse reports on her. If she's devorced then speak to the father get info from all family members, x baby sitters everyone. Then if she has lied and got him to lie the court needs to as soon as possible investigate the mother for exploiting her charge and put her away for fraud. Anyone that knows of a handicapped adult that has been pulled away from all the people that he grew to love his whole life and all the sudden made to believe he hates them then. Please go to the proper authorties. If you know this guy and you see wrong printed on this story then please go to the proper people too. We must protect the ones that can't protect themselves.
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