Registered Sex Offender Attacks Fellow Resident in Iowa Nursing Home
A registered sex offender living at an Iowa nursing home is now under extremely strict watch, after an eight-year-old girl witnessed him sexually assaulting a female resident. The attack took place on August 21 at the Pomeroy Care Center in Pomeroy. The girl, who was visiting relatives, says she witnessed 83-year-old William Cubbage standing over a woman’s bed with his hands between the woman’s legs. According to state Health Department records, the woman was consistently saying “No!” After the attack, the woman was in tears, and begged a staff member not to leave her alone. Cubbage has a history...
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The Real Devastation Associated With Sex Abuse In Nursing Home Will Never Be Known As Most Acts Go Unreported & Unprosecuted
The overwhelming majority of sex abuse cases involving nursing home patients go unreported to authorities and hence un-prosecuted according to a recent news story on the topic by WKYC, a Cleveland, OH television station. In evaluating the sex abuse complaints made to the Ohio Department of health, the regulatory agency for nursing homes, just a handful of the 324 complaints made regarding rape and sexual abuse of patients in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities resulted in a conviction. One of the biggest hurdles for prosecutors of sexual abuse cases is the victims inability to testify. According to Ohio...
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Failure To Properly Screen CNA Could Cost Facility 3.5 Million
A lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of a mentally disabled man who police say was sexually assaulted by a CNA at an assisted-living facility. The lawsuit alleges that the Cote De Neige Home for Adults and its owner, Rose Daniels Potter, failed in their duty to exercise "reasonable care" when they hired Junious Boyd Batten for a job as a certified nursing assistant in a facility with developmentally impaired residents. The home "knew or should have known that (Batten) was unfit, unsuitable, untrustworthy and incompetent for the position ... and was likely to cause injury and harm to residents,"...
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