Nurse Gets $7.2 Million In Lawsuit Against Kane County

GENEVA, IL - Three nurses at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva have received settlements more than a year after a Kane County jail inmate took two one of the nurses hostage. The nurse that was held hostage, raped and had her life threatened during a standoff that lasted several hours on May 13, 2017 has received $7.2 million in the lawsuit that was filed against Kane County, a sheriff's deputy and the hospital's security contractor, the Daily Herald reports.

Two other nurses who were at the hospital that day have also been compensated for the trauma they endured at the will of inmate Tywon Salters. According to the Herald, the settlement calls for one of those nurses to receive $650,000 and the other to receive $25,000.

Salters was at the hospital after receiving surgery when he overpowered the deputy supervising him,took his handgun and then demanded a nurse give him her clothes at gunpoint. At some point, another nurse convinced Salters to leave the first nurse and instead take her to a decontamination room near the hospital's emergency department, where she was held for several hours before police came in and shot and killed Salters.

Counts as part of the lawsuit include allegations that Kane County officials knew Salters was a danger to himself and others. It's unclear whether the lawsuit has been dismissed.

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