Ignoring Sexual Assaults
DesMoinesRegister reported that Mitchell Worchester, the administrator of Tabor Manor Care Center in Fremont County, Iowa is facing sanctions against his licence after failure to correctly respond to and prevent several incidents of sexual assault within his nursing home. Over the course of three years, a resident in his facility continued to sexually assault other residents.
In June of 2008, the resident touched the breasts and genitals of a female resident. The incident was reported to the state, however, no further investigation was done. Two more incidents of sexual assault by the resident occurred before the facility did anything to prevent the assaults.
Only after the resident was again caught inappropriately touching a female resident and then leaving another resident’s room in nothing but his underwear were measures taken to prevent the incidents.
The facility finally installed an alarm on the alleged assaulter’s door. However just days after the alarm’s installation, a female resident complained that he touched her breast. A month later a female resident was seen leaving his room with her pants down and a substance that appeared to be blood on her thigh. Incredibly, no one in the nursing home thought it was significant enough to do a medical examination of the female resident. Additionally, the facility failed to document many of the incidents of sexual assault or to report them to the state or the victim’s families.
