A patient at the Bronx Psychiatric Center claims he was molested by an employee who was a registered sex offender in Florida when he was hired, the Daily News has learned.
The worker, John Washington, disclosed on his application that he was an ex-con but didn’t say he had committed a sex crime - and the state hospital never checked.
Washington worked there as a therapy aide trainee for nearly three years - until he was accused of sexually abusing a 22-year-old male patient in the middle of the night in March 2008, according to court papers.
The young man, whose name is being withheld by The News, told his mother what happened.
A probe by the NYPD and Bronx prosecutors ended with no charges filed.
“It was not a prosecutable case,” said Steven Reed, a spokesman for the Bronx district attorney, declining to elaborate.
The patient has filed a lawsuit against the state with the Court of Claims.
His lawyer, Andrea Freund, said it is “outrageous” Washington was allowed to work with such a vulnerable population.
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