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A former mental health counselor at a Chicago behavioral health hospital has been charged with sexually assaulting five boys during his time there, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Edmund Rivers, 68, is accused of sexually assaulting the boys, between the ages of 7 and 14, while he worked at Hartgrove Behavioral Health Hospital between 1996 and 2004. Hartgrove is now called Hartgrove Behavioral Health System and is located in the city’s Austin neighborhood.

“This alleged abuse is horrific, and the survivors have shown tremendous courage coming forward to report these allegations after so many years,” Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said in a news release. “Instead of receiving support during a vulnerab

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