Employees at North Aurora Care Center were worried about admitting V.R. The 28-year-old man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, hypersexual tendencies and cognitive delay. So, when a local hospital was looking for a place to send him, staff at the northern Illinois nursing home resisted.

“We did not want to take this guy,” the director of psychosocial rehab there told government inspectors. “We could not meet his needs.”

But officials with the facility’s corporate office, Petersen Health Care, overruled those concerns and accepted V.R. in October 2023.

In the wee hours of the morning, less than 24 hours after his arrival, V.R. allegedly groped a resident with Down syndrome. He also tried to get into bed with another resident and entered the room of a third woman, according to inspect

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