前芝加哥心理健康顾问Edmund Rivers(68岁)被控1996年至2004年对5名7至14岁的男孩进行性攻击。 A former Chicago mental health counselor, Edmund Rivers, 68, was charged with sexually assaulting five boys, ages 7 to 14, between 1996 and 2004.

Edmund Rivers, 68岁,芝加哥Hartgrove行为保健医院前心理健康顾问,被控1996年至2004年对5名7至14岁的男孩进行性攻击。 Edmund Rivers, 68, a former mental health counselor at Hartgrove Behavioral Health Hospital in Chicago, has been charged with sexually assaulting five boys, ages 7 to 14, between 1996 and 2004. 检察官指称,虐待发生在多个医院地区,包括病人室和浴室,里弗斯用注射器威胁受害者。 Prosecutors allege the abuse occurred in multiple hospital areas, including patient rooms and a bathroom, with Rivers threatening victims using a syringe. 受害者相互不相识,在民事诉讼表明存在虐待模式之后,他们站出来。 The victims, who did not know one another, came forward after a civil lawsuit revealed a pattern of abuse. Rivers从1993年至2004年在该设施工作,面临三项犯罪性攻击罪和两项掠夺性性性侵犯罪。 Rivers, who worked at the facility from 1993 to 2004, faces three counts of criminal sexual assault and two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. 他被捕,下令无保释,并出现在法庭上, 库克县州检察官艾琳·奥尼尔·伯克称这些指控是可怕的, 并赞扬幸存者的勇气. He was arrested, ordered held without bond, and appeared in court, where Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke called the allegations horrific and commended the survivors’ courage. 医院(现为Hartgrove行为卫生体系)没有做出评论。 The hospital, now Hartgrove Behavioral Health System, has not commented.