A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). This story was commissioned by the River City ...

A 71-year-old Strasburg woman, Gerilynn "Lynn" Amaro, is now facing six felony charges of assault of an at-risk person, and two misdemeanor charges of child abuse, in connection with the alleged abuse ...

Steven Harrison, 62, of Roosevelt, was working as a van driver for AHRC when the incidents occurred, Nassau police say.

A former employee at a home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is facing rape and other charges of abuse against a woman in his care. Hal E. Nauman, 78, of Warrenton, had been ...

Police arrested Harrison at the AHRC Nassau facility in Brookville and charged him with third-degree rape, first-degree endangering the welfare of an incompetent physically disabled person and ...

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The Greer Center was supposed to be a refuge for people with developmental disabilities. But accounts from inside the secretive facility paint a starkly different picture, depicting a place where ...

A High Desert legislator introduced a bill this week that would legally designate the crime of rape of a developmentally disabled child as a violent felony in California. State Rep. Tom Lackey, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- "Torture" is how New Mexico's top prosecutor describes the treatment a 38-year-old developmentally disabled woman endured before her death at the hands of her caregivers, who ...

Scheer, a man with developmental disabilities and mobility issues who used a wheelchair, was living at the state-run St. Louis Developmental Disabilities Treatment Center in St. Charles in June 2020 ...