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   A police investigation is underway after a woman who has been in   
   a persistent vegetative state for 14 years gave birth at a   
   private nursing facility last month.   
      
   The patient, who has been unresponsive since a near-drowning   
   incident more than a decade ago, delivered a healthy baby boy on   
   December 29, 2018 at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, AZ.   
   Staffers didn’t know the woman was pregnant until she went into   
   labor, an unnamed source told KTVK, a local CBS News affiliate.   
      
   “None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she   
   was pretty much giving birth,” the source said. “From what I’ve   
   been told she was moaning. And they didn’t know what was wrong   
   with her.”   
      
   The facility, which specializes in treating chronically ill and   
   developmentally disabled people, has apparently changed   
   protocols and will no longer allow male staffers to enter a   
   female patient’s room unaccompanied. Refinery29 reached out to   
   Hacienda HealthCare for comment.   
      
   Multiple agencies, including the Phoenix police department and   
   the Arizona Department of Health Services, are now investigating   
   the woman’s sexual assault.   
      
   “During this time, the agency has required heightened safety   
   measures be implemented at the facility, including increased   
   staff presence during patient interactions; increased monitoring   
   of the patient care areas; and increased security measures with   
   respect to visitors at the facility,” Arizona Department of   
   Health Services spokesperson Melissa Blasius-Nuanez said Friday.   
      
      
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    DISTURBING: A woman who's been in a vegetative state for at   
   least 14 yrs, gave birth to a baby boy Saturday. She was being   
   cared for at a long-term care facility in Phoenix. Now   
   investigators are searching for who raped her.   
      
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   The department’s records show that in 2013, a male staffer at   
   Hacienda HealthCare was fired after colleagues reported him   
   making “sexually explicit remarks” about patients, according to   
   the New York Times. The employee was fired and the facility   
   instituted new training policies on reporting patient abuse.   
      
   A local OB-GYN told KTVK it was a “miracle” there were no severe   
   complications during the birth.   
      
   “This was an extremely dangerous situation with no monitoring,”   
   Dr. Greg Marchand said. “It could have been an active labor for   
   hours or even days. This easily could have resulted in a fetal   
   death.   
      
   “There’s no doubt she was able to feel pain, but how much   
   consciousness there was to really take the suffering from that   
   is what I don’t know,” he added.   
      
   A spokesperson for the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and   
   Domestic Violence, meanwhile, worries there could be more   
   victims at the nursing facility.   
      
   “Many sexual assault perpetrators are actually looking for   
   situations where people are in isolated or vulnerable   
   positions,” spokesperson Tasha Menaker told KTVK. “Because most   
   perpetrators are not reported to police or their cases don't   
   actually move forward, we always don't know if someone has a   
   history of engaging in sexual harm against people.   
      
   “Our hope is that there will be a thorough investigation that   
   identifies the person who did this, and [if] for some reason we   
   weren't to see a thorough investigation, we would take further   
   steps.”   
      
   https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/01/220896/phoenix-coma-   
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