The lawsuit filed March 6 alleges that a New York facility 'covered up' sexual abuse against the woman's developmentally disabled mother.
She was raised by her grandparents and, as she grew older and started her own family, couldn’t ignore the questions she had about her mother’s time at the center. A few years ago, she set out to learn more, having conversations with family members, filing records requests, searching for paternal relatives and swabbing herself for an Ancestry.com DNA test.
Cruz filed the lawsuit against the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities on behalf of her mother, who is now living in a different facility. The man Cruz identified as her mother’s rapist is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit because Cruz and the legal team wanted to focused on the coverup they say allowed the abuse to continue happening, Crumiller said. The man has not been charged with any crime in connection with Cruz’s mother, and the criminal statute of limitations in New York has passed.Cruz’s grandparents first told her about her mother when she was around 7 or 8 years old, she said.
She submitted requests for records with various local and state agencies, including the New York Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, according to the lawsuit. When Cruz’s mother was eight months pregnant, the lawsuit alleges, the center suggested she take birth control or undergo a tubal ligation to prevent future pregnancies. Those suggestions from the facility showed that it had enabled the abuse, “rather than taking steps to root out the violent perpetrator,” the complaint alleges.According to the lawsuit, the facility told the family that it “suspected another patient had committed the rape,” and that it would investigate and file a police report.
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