I can hardly believe how awful this one is!
Posted by
Lauren EllermanFebruary 15, 2008 2:13 PMIf I hadn't read medical records from the victim of sexual assault in a long term care facility, I wouldn't believe it possible.
Out of Ohio, staff assaults residents - physically and sexually, and other staff do nothing about it!
"Nursing home worker John Riems had a temper and spent long periods in patients' rooms with the doors closed, neighbors and former co-workers say, troubling observations that have suddenly taken on a sickening weight.
"We've had several residents, they don't want him touching them, they don't want him in their room," said Cynthia Wilson, a 47-year-old nurse's aide who said she worked with Riems for more than 20 years at several nursing homes. "A lot of them would refuse their meds just to keep him out of their room."
Riems, 49, is charged with raping a paralyzed patient at the home where he was a night-side nurse, and police say he claimed to have attacked scores of others -- so many that he couldn't recall them all."
Riems told police he had abused almost 100 patients since 1985, at up to 10 nursing homes, but could remember specific information on only about two dozen patients, Perkins Township Police Chief Tim McClung said after Riems pleaded not guilty last week to charges of rape and gross sexual imposition.
He could face more charges, McClung said.
I am so saddened when I think of the 100 victims, unable, or unwilling to express their pain - and how this man just kept harming so many.