A nursing assistant is accused of raping, and impregnating, a resident at a skilled nursing facility in Goodyear. The story is reminiscent of what happened at the Hacienda HealthCare intermediate care facility in Phoenix more than five years ago, when an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth.
A Woman With Developmental Disabilities Was Abused in Arizona. The State Promised Changes. It Has Not Made Them Yet.
A woman with DD living in a state home was raped and had a baby. A task force was made to come up with changes to protect people like her. Most of those changes have not happened yet.
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This is Hacienda HealthCare. It is in Phoenix. This is where a woman with DD was raped. She had a baby here two years ago. (Matt York/AP)
Inside Arizona’s Division of Developmental Disabilities
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On New Year’s Eve 2018, an Arizona long-term care facility became a crime scene.
A 29-year-old resident with disabilities so profound she could not talk, walk or care for herself shocked staff when she gave birth to a boy. No one had even noticed she was pregnant. Immediately it was clear she had been raped.
In the national outrage that followed the incident at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, Arizona promised to do better. The state, which prized itself on its reputation for providing top-notch services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, took action immediately.
Arizona made a revolutionary system to protect people with developmental disabilities. Now it's falling apart. | Local News Stories havasunews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from havasunews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.