Convicted felon running a health care facility

[hanzomon4]

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WESH.com
Convicted Felon Accused Of Running Health-Care Facility, Abusing Women

POSTED: 7:05 pm EDT April 24, 2007
UPDATED: 7:14 pm EDT April 24, 2007
Patients are being sent to a convicted felon running a health-care home in Orange County, officials said.

Melvin Alexander is now charged with rape.

Alexander is accused of sexually abusing two women in his care—one is 75 years old.

DCF said Alexander never should have had access to the people he's now charged with brutalizing.

Alexander has been a kind of caregiver, but doesn't have a license, WESH 2 News reported.


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Deputies said they broke in to Alexander’s home to serve a search warrant.

They said the 45-year-old unlicensed caregiver jumped out a window and broke his leg trying to avoid arrest.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department said Alexander was physically and sexually abusing a young adult resident and her 75-year-old grandmother.

Neighbors like Hugo Baron said they had no idea this was some sort of care home.

Deputies said someone placed the 75-year-old accuser with Alexander in February.

She claims Alexander smoked crack, beat her with a metal pole and broomstick and sexually abused her multiple times.

DCF said it is investigating whether Alexander's accusers were sent to him by a state agency or mental-health professional or were staying there willingly.
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[psy]

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WESH.com
Convicted Felon Accused Of Running Health-Care Facility, Abusing Women

POSTED: 7:05 pm EDT April 24, 2007
UPDATED: 7:14 pm EDT April 24, 2007
Patients are being sent to a convicted felon running a health-care home in Orange County, officials said.

Melvin Alexander is now charged with rape.

Alexander is accused of sexually abusing two women in his care—one is 75 years old.

DCF said Alexander never should have had access to the people he's now charged with brutalizing.

Alexander has been a kind of caregiver, but doesn't have a license, WESH 2 News reported.


Health Facility Locator
Click here to locate all licensed health facilities in your county.


Deputies said they broke in to Alexander’s home to serve a search warrant.

They said the 45-year-old unlicensed caregiver jumped out a window and broke his leg trying to avoid arrest.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department said Alexander was physically and sexually abusing a young adult resident and her 75-year-old grandmother.

Neighbors like Hugo Baron said they had no idea this was some sort of care home.

Deputies said someone placed the 75-year-old accuser with Alexander in February.

She claims Alexander smoked crack, beat her with a metal pole and broomstick and sexually abused her multiple times.

DCF said it is investigating whether Alexander's accusers were sent to him by a state agency or mental-health professional or were staying there willingly.
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Oh this is beautiful...  good old California.  Hey... Got a school down in Redlands staffed FULL of convicted felons...  Anybody give a shit?

[Antigen]

Sadly, there's a market for this. And it's growing as the babyboomers have need of placement and care for their, often mentally incontinent, elderly relatives. I'd laugh if  some joker comes up w/ a toughlove cure for dementia. Wouldn't turn them in, either.

[BuzzKill]

Heres a story to give ya cold chills. The home of the innocence is the facility that the state uses for little children that have been seriously abused; or whose parents have gone to jail - that kind of thing.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
 
Ex-Home of the Innocents official accused of abducting girl

By Sara Cunningham and Jessie Halladay
The Courier-Journal



A former administrator for the Home of Innocents has been charged with abducting a young girl and trying to lure children into his van while in Richmond, Ind., officials said yesterday.

Jeremy Levine of Louisville, who just left the Home's employ, is charged with one count of criminal confinement and two counts of attempted criminal confinement, said Detective Capt. Greg Pipes of the Richmond police.

Levine was arrested April 15, accused of attempting to lure two children into his van and then later abducting a young girl near a trailer park.

Levine could not be reached immediately for comment.

Pipes said the children, 7 and 10, said Levine tried to get them into his van by saying he was looking for his dog. But the children refused and ran to tell their mothers.

One mother, according to Pipes, then saw the van her child described, and in the front seat she saw an 8-year-old girl whom she knew. Levine reportedly threw a jacket over the girl's head and drove away after being seen by the woman.

The woman told police that she followed the van until it circled back to the trailer park and let the girl out, Pipes said.

Police later located the van and arrested Levine.

Levine was the director of clinical services at the Home of the Innocents when he was arrested.

Levine no longer was employed by the Home after the charges were discovered Tuesday, said Gordon Brown, president of the Home. He would not specify whether Levine had been fired or quit of his own accord.

Brown said Levine had worked at the agency since August 2000.

During his employment, Levine had limited access to children, Brown said. Annual criminal background checks and routine evaluations turned up no problems with Levine's record.

Brown said no complaints either from staff or children had ever been lodged against Levine.

"We have no reason to suspect that anything happened inappropriately" at the center, Brown said.

Levine is a licensed social worker.

Levine was released after posting bail, Pipes said.

Reporter Sara Cunningham can be reached at (502) 582-4335. Reporter Jessie Halladay can be reached at (502) 582-4081.

[Ursus]

I think there are a lot of people attracted to this kind of work who are attracted to it for all the wrong reasons.  Gives me chills and makes me sick.

[exhausted]

Not from a program, but still shows how right Ursus is to think this way.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/sto ... 39,00.html

[Oz girl]

This used to happen here a lot. The offender would just be quietly asked to leave so as not to "cause any embarassment" . Sometimes a teacher would be asked to leave several schools in one system or state and just move to another. A paedophile could move from the private to the public school system in a variety of States. it is sickening really.