Nurses suing Illinois hospital, security firm after being held hostage

Suit alleges security officer ran away from situation and made no effort to help


Two nurses who were held hostage at a Geneva, Ill., healthcare facility by a Kane County Jail inmate have filed a lawsuit against the county, a corrections deputy and the security firm used by the hospital, according to an article on the Becker's Hospital Review website.

While at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital for surgery May 13, an inmate took a handgun from a correctional officer with the Kane County Sherriff's Department. After his gun was taken, the officer ran down the hallway into another room and made no effort to help, according to the nurses' lawyer.

The inmate took one nurse hostage in an office. He held her at gunpoint, threatened her, forced her to remove her clothes, and verbally and physically abused her, according to the lawsuit. He released the first nurse when a second nurse walked into the room. The lawsuit alleges he took the second nurse into a another room where he tortured and raped her during the more than three hours.

The nurses' lawsuit alleges sheriff's officers and private security guards failed to follow proper procedures saying the guards used laptops, watched TV and fell asleep on the job. 

Read the article.

 



May 31, 2017


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