Rights group says poor supervision, oversight led to Montana State Hospital rape by convicted sex offender

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

A female patient at Montana’s psychiatric hospital was reportedly raped by a convicted sex offender in March 2008, and the state recently paid a $375,000 settlement to avoid litigation in the case.
More glaring than the sexual assault on a mentally ill, newly committed patient, however, is the lax supervision and lack of oversight that allowed [...]