Sexual assault in nursing Homes

[Sriram]

Hi everyone,

Here is an article about sexual abuse in nursing homes in America.

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/02/health/nursing-home-sex-abuse-investigation/

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Some of the victims can't speak. They rely on walkers and wheelchairs to leave their beds. They have been robbed of their memories. They come to nursing homes to be cared for.

Instead, they are sexually assaulted.

The unthinkable is happening at facilities throughout the country: Vulnerable seniors are being raped and sexually abused by the very people paid to care for them.

It's impossible to know just how many victims are out there. But through an exclusive analysis of state and federal data and interviews with experts, regulators and the families of victims, CNN has found that this little-discussed issue is more widespread than anyone would imagine.

Even more disturbing: In many cases, nursing homes and the government officials who oversee them are doing little -- or nothing -- to stop it.

Sometimes pure -- and even willful -- negligence is at work. In other instances, nursing home employees and administrators are hamstrung in their efforts to protect victims who can't remember exactly what happened to them or even identify their perpetrators.

It's rarely talked about, but sexual assault in the very facilities tasked with caring for the elderly is hardly a new problem, with cases dating back decades.

It's happening all over the country. In cities, the suburbs and the countryside. In nursing homes housing low-income residents on Medicaid. And in centers where people pay thousands of dollars out of their own savings to be there. They're owned by huge corporations and regional chains but also by nonprofits and mom-and-pop small business owners.

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Its quite a long and detailed article.  Unbelievable!

For information.

Sriram

[Bubbles]

Sadly, wherever there are vulnerable people, there are those who prey on them.

It's the darker side of human nature.

It happens  all over the world. Always someone around to take advantage.

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At least in some parts of the world, such people are being exposed for what they are.

Some abuses in other places, just goes unreported and unnoticed.

Just because other places don't expose it, doesn't mean they don't have it.

[Nearly Sane]

Yep, I have to agree with Rose here, not sure that it is that much of a shock after recent times. In part, so much f this is the past was somehow coveted up, ignored, and not talked about.

[ippy]

So I'm told, it's more to do with power than the sexual component of these assaults.

Difficult to understand for most us average/normal people.

ippy

[floo]

So I'm told, it's more to do with power than the sexual component of these assaults.

Difficult to understand for most us average/normal people.

ippy

I agree.

[Harrowby Hall]

We in Britain are well aware of this behaviour - if only from the activities of a single perpetrator: Savile. From what I have heard about him, the "power" he had over his victims was an important part of his motivation and he boasted to victims that he had the police in his pocket!

He was a regular (and celebrated) hospital visitor, and it appears used patients to gratify his urges. He even had his own private quarters at Stoke Mandeville.

[Robbie]

A universal problem. We hear of it in England. What the last few posters said describes it well & reasons for it which are, agreed, difficult to understand. Frightening to think we could at some point be vulnerable and at the mercy of those employed to care.