Rogue Professor Ran Sexual Arousal Experiments on Disabled Patients: Lawsuit
Severely intellectually and physically disabled patients at a state-run home in Iowa were used as “guinea pigs” in research experiments involving sexual arousal, a federal civil-rights lawsuit claimed this week.
The 38-page complaint filed on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa alleges that a former University of Kansas assistant professor and child psychologist, 63-year-old Jerry Rea, experimented on the “highly vulnerable” patients at the Glenwood Resource Center. Rea’s affiliation with the university reportedly ended when he moved to Iowa, and he was terminated from his role as superintendent at Glenwood when it came under federal scrutiny in December, The Des Moines Register reported.
Glenwood, an intermediate care facility operated by the Iowa Department of Human Services, serves roughly 200 individuals, some of whom are non-communicative and rely on the center’s medical staff “for their very survival,” according to the suit. It was filed by six former employees who claim the center violated their rights and state whistleblower laws between 2017 and 2019.
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