New Charges In Grand Jury Probe of Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry

A Pennsylvania grand jury investigating alleged misconduct at a suburban psychiatric hospital has indicted a worker on charges that he challenged a 14-year-old patient to a fight, then beat the youth so severely that he needed stitches. The psychiatric technician, Jack Glover, 35, of Philadelphia, is the fourth employee of the Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry to be charged with abusing a patient in two years.

The charges come on the heels of three other complaints against staff at the medical center, which also goes by the name Progressions Hospital.

In November a worker accused of having sex with a 16-year-old female patient was convicted on a charge of corrupting a minor. In April, two psychiatric technicians were charged with institutional sexual assault after they were accused, in separate cases, of having sexual encounters with two female patients, aged 15 and 16. State officials threatened to take away the hospital's license in June, but recently agreed to let it keep operating under stricter supervision.

If this keeps up, they may have to change their mind.

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