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America’s hidden horror: Sexual abuse in nursing homes and care facilities

April 23, 2017

Kansas City Star (April 23)

America’s hidden horror: Sexual abuse in nursing homes and care facilities

Early one afternoon in March 2015, an authoritative knock stirred Mark Allen Keeney into answering the door to Room 6 of a motel in southeast Missouri.

A sheriff’s deputy and police chief wanted to know who was with him. They found empty beer cans and two women, both described in a state health report as mentally ill and under the care of a guardian.

The women, in their mid-40s, also were residents of Keeney Country Homes, a state-licensed residential care facility that Keeney owned in the neighboring county.


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