West Haven Nursing Home Fined After Resident Sexually Assaulted

WEST HAVEN, CT — Apple Rehab West Haven has been fined nearly $7,000 by the state Department of Public Health for an incident in which a resident was sexually assaulted by a visitor in 2018, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Cara Rosner of the Connecticut Health I-Team reports a nurse found the resident and a male visitor naked in the resident’s room. The resident, who suffered from a developmental disorder, initially told the nurse they had sex and the man was her boyfriend, according to Rosner.

The resident, who reported the next morning that she had been sexually assaulted, was taken to the hospital and a rape kit tested positive, Rosner reports.

Read more details and see the other nursing homes in the state recently fined by the DPH at the Connecticut Health I-Team website here.