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Cali_Democrat

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Mon Feb 24, 2014, 02:41 PM Feb 2014

WTF!!! 89-Year-Old Rape Victim Branded A 'Flirt' By Nursing Home

Nursing Home Director Calls 89-Year-Old Rape Victim A 'Flirt,' Lawsuit Charges
Posted: 02/24/2014 9:28 am EST

A Minnesota nursing home ignored an 89-year-old rape victim's pleas for help, then branded her as a "flirt" who harassed her attacker "mercilessly," court papers charge.

The woman's caretaker, Andrew Scott Merzwski, admitted to raping her in January 2013. He was sentenced last month to 53 months in prison. But a lawsuit against the Edgewood Vista facility in Hermantow accuses a nursing home director of defending the rapist even after he admitted to his crime.

"Did she tell you that this was consensual?" Marilyn Moore, the home's clinical services director, reportedly told a nurse examiner who inspected the victim. "Did she tell you that she flirts with this boy mercilessly?"

The Star Tribune unearthed the shocking court documents, which go on to charge that the victim was locked in a psychiatric ward for almost three days after reporting the crime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/89-year-old-rape-victim-flirt_n_4846423.html?utm_hp_ref=crime

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WTF!!! 89-Year-Old Rape Victim Branded A 'Flirt' By Nursing Home (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Feb 2014 OP
Okay, this is some ignorant shit shenmue Feb 2014 #1
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