Elder Sexual Abuse

America’s hidden horror: Sexual abuse in nursing homes and care facilities

Kansas City Star by Mark Davis and Ian Cummings

Early one afternoon in March 2015, an authoritative knock stirred Mark Allen Keeney into answering the door to Room 6 of a motel in southeast Missouri.

A sheriff’s deputy and police chief wanted to know who was with him. They found empty beer cans and two women, both described in a state health report as mentally ill and under the care of a guardian.