
Girl’s Mother Sues Hospital
St. Vincents faces 2nd suit over sex attacks on patients WHITE PLAINS The mother of a developmentally disabled teen yesterday sued a psychiatric hospital in Harrison where her daughter was sexually assaulted last year, marking the second lawsuit filed since November over a sex attack there. The lawsuit seeks unspecified money damages from St. Vincents Hospital of Westchester, based on allegations it failed to protect the girl, then 15, from fellow patients who abused her. A developmentally disabled 18-year-old woman faces felony sex charges in the incident, which authorities said took place Aug. 15. The victim s mother was not available for comment, but the victim s father said he hoped the lawsuit would force the closure of St. Vincents, a 133-bed hospital owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and the Sisters of Charity of New York. We re doing this to prevent something like this from ever happening again, the father said. We need to make the public aware o