Lawsuit says children were beaten, sexually abused at Chicago facility while in state care
CHICAGO - Calling it a "hospital of horrors," Cook County's public guardian sued an embattled Uptown psychiatric facility on Wednesday on behalf of seven children and teens who said they were abused while receiving mental health services there while in state protective custody.
The federal lawsuit alleges the children, as young as 7 and 8, were beaten and molested by staff and peers or improperly medicated at Aurora Chicago Lakeshore Hospital. The hospital has since dropped Aurora from its name.
The complaint also names several current and former employees
