According to police reports, a Hillcrest employee found Shaw sitting on the woman’s bed last month with blood on his face and hands. She was menstruating at the time of the alleged attack. Shaw had his shirt off and sweat pants down to his knees but his boxer shorts were on.

A warrant was issued for Shaw’s arrest, and two psychiatrists who interviewed Shaw testified he understood the charge and thus, Shaw was found competent to stand trial. However, the public defender representing Shaw said the ruling was surprising. “I am still trying to grasp, as a layman, how a psychotic is competent to stand trial,” he told the newspaper. If found guilty of the Class D felony, he faces six months to three years in jail.

Shaw was moved from Hillcrest Centre to Clark Memorial Hospital’s behavior health unit before being transferred to the Clark County Jail. Hillcrest Centre released a statement saying it provided a detailed report to the Indiana State Department of Public Health and that it would take measures to ensure all residents of the facility remain free of any abuse.

Family members of the victim are calling for the home to close down, and they are pursuing a lawsuit against the nursing home on their daughter’s behalf.

SOURCE: Nursing Home Abuse › Schizophrenic man to stand trial in nursing home sexual abuse case

According to a report by local television station WAVE3 in November 2007, family members say Rev. Graham, who had required full-time nursing care since 1999 after a fall left him a quadriplegic with a serious brain injury, began a quick decline in health after entering the Harborside facility in January 2007. Prior to that time, he was cared for at a different facility, where he experienced no problems during his six-year stay, according to his sister, Sherry Cooke.

According to the WAVE3 report, incidents of neglect included severe bed sores, a feeding tube being turned or left off repeatedly resulting in dramatic weight loss, and medications missed or administered incorrectly.

The family says Adult Protective Services investigated and substantiated their claim of caretaker neglect. However, the nursing home released a statement to the TV station saying they had complied with the state department of health and the office of Inspector General in their investigations in the family’s concerns, and that the agencies found the care center acted appropriately in the care of the individual.

SOURCE: Nursing Home Abuse › A family’s worst fear