A janitor at the Normandy Nursing Center, a St. Louis, Missouri nursing home, was arrested and charged with raping a resident at the facility. The victim is a 36-year-old woman suffering from Cerebal Palsy and seizure disorder. The alleged incident took place on December 21st when the janitor attacked the woman in a stairwell and raped her. The alleged perpetrator is being held in the St. Louis County Jail on $200,000 cash only bond. According to the administrator at Normandy Nursing Center, the alleged perpetrator has worked at the facility for a year and a half and passed a background check.

Normandy Nursing Center received 2 out of 5 starts as a total rating for the facility according to Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare website. The for-profit facility is capable for 116 residents. When it comes to staffing levels at the facility, Normandy rated poorly receiving just 1 out of 5 stars. Normandy’s staffing levels were significantly below the staffing levels for both national and Missouri nursing home averages. Dare I say that had Normandy provided more staff to look after residents, this nursing home rape may have been prevented?

St. Louis Resident says:

December 12, 2011 at 4:33 pm

That person was found innoncent after spending the last two years in jail awaiting trial. Maybe the eye witness testimony was that some other elderly patient saw him bent over near her bed or wheelchair, perhaps he was picking up something off the floor or otherwise doing his duty as a janitor. In this rush to judgment society someone assumed he was doing something wrong. The poor guy couldn’t make bail so I doubt he had a high paid lawyer, probably a public defender. Again, yet another instance of sex abuse hysteria stealing an innocent persons life.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/jury-clears-former-janitor-in-normandy-nursing-home-rape/article_1537d146-4524-11e0-a6bd-0017a4a78c22.html#ixzz1gMX8WCef