Thursday, 28 Mar 2024

Care home where disabled woman gave birth ‘after nurse raped her’ shuts down

A care facility where a severely disabled woman gave birth after allegedly being raped by a nurse is shutting down.

Officials with Hacienda HealthCare in Arizona, USA, announced they had decided it was not suitable to keep operating.

The facility serves infants, children and young adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities who require a high level of medical care.

Nurse Nathan Sutherland, 36, recently entered a not guilty plea to charges of sexual assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult.

He appeared before a judge while wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackled at the legs and wrists.

Police arrested Sutherland last month after DNA linked him to the unnamed patient’s child.

She went into labour in December sparking a manhunt for whoever had abused her.


Originally described as being in a coma, it later emerged the woman – in her 20s – is capable of responding to sound and making facial gestures, as well as having some ability to move her limbs, head and neck.

Sutherland’s lawyer, Dave Gregan, has said there was no direct evidence against his client, who lacked any prior criminal history, and that the defence planned to conduct its own DNA tests.

The victim, who has been disabled since early childhood as a result of seizures, has spent most of her life in the nursing facility.

Hacienda employees were not aware that the woman was pregnant before she went into labour, police said, and were first alerted to the case when the baby was born.

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