DCFS Hired Ex-Little City Worker Charged In Beating Of Boy At Special Needs Facility: Report

PALATINE, IL — One of the three ex-Little City employees accused of abusing an 11-year-old boy at the facility last year has been put on adminstrative leave from her job at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Daily Herald reports.

Lisa Archer, 39, of Palatine, was charged Feb. 12 with aggravated battery after she and another employee who also was charged allegedly attacked the special needs boy, a resident at the nonprofit Palatine facility that helps individuals with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. In the Dec. 1 incident, prosecutors claim one of the women allegedly held the child down while the other punched and beat him with a bucket.

Both women were placed immediately on administrative leave after the alleged attack, and Little City fired them five days later. According to a Little City spokesman, the women worked as direct support professionals, roles that worked directly with facility residents to support them and help integrate them into the community, the Herald reports.

RELATED: 2 Ex-Little City Workers Punched, Hit Boy, 11, With Bucket: Sheriff's Office

The Department of Children and Family Services opened an investigation into the Little City incident Dec. 2, and it turned over its findings to the sheriff's office, which conducted its own probe Jan. 23.

Archer was later hired by DCFS, but a department spokeswoman was unable to tell the Herald what kind of position she held. The spokeswoman also said Archer had been put on administrative leave Friday, Feb. 24, and that the department would be investigating Archer a second time.

RELATED: Another Little City Employee Accused Of Hitting 11-Year-Old Boy In Separate Incident

A third Little City employee also was accused of abusing the 11-year-old boy in an earlier, separate incident. Kalia Coffey, 23, of Schaumburg, was charged with aggravated battery of a child in July of last year after she allegedly punched the boy in the face June 17.

A Little City spokesman told the Herald that Coffey, who also was a direct support professional, was fired after initially being placed on administrative leave.

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