Woman, who has been in a coma for 14 years, gives birth at a nursing home
January 4, 2019 at 2:05 PM EST - Updated January 5 at 1:23 AMPHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK/CNN) - Arizona authorities are investigating the rape of a female patient in a vegetative state in a nursing facility.
The woman stunned workers when she went into labor on Saturday because they didn't even know she was pregnant.
The woman has been in a vegetative state at the Hacienda Skilled Nursing Facility in Phoenix for at least 14 years after a near-drowning incident.
But nobody knows who did this to her.
An employee at the facility, who didn’t want her name or face being used, said staff could not believe what was unfolding inside the victim’s room.
"How could it happen? And just anger and sadness, and sick to my stomach,” the employee said. "None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth."
When asked how the staff was alerted that the woman was going into labor, the staffer, who admits she was not in the room, said she had been moaning all morning. A nurse who was in the room delivered the baby boy, who is healthy.
Adult Protective Services immediately dispatched a team to conduct health and safety checks on all members living in the facility.
The Arizona Department of Health says they are actively working with local law enforcement in their criminal investigation.
But right now, no suspects have been named.
Adult Protective Services immediately dispatched a team to conduct health and safety checks on all members living in the facility.
The Arizona Department of Health says they are actively working with local law enforcement in their criminal investigation.
But right now, no suspects have been named.
Comments (21)
Announce that all males who had access to the victim will be given a DNA test to determine the who fathered the boy.
The person who hears the announcement & melts into quivering mass of goo...
There's the guy. Case solved.
I suppose it COULD have been done by artificial insemination.
That'd be really(!) weird.
But this is already so weird - nothing is too crazy to be ruled out.
Immaculate Conception
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find the father and the kid has to be raised by him?
Well for a starter, does she have a husband?
Good thinkin' Linds!
That could open up a whole slew of different possibilities!
Among others - that artificial insemination possibility becomes less weird.
The guy might've wanted to have a kid with his wife.
And if they'd been trying to have a kid prior to the coma incident - that could arguably imply consent.
Shallow Minded Idiot Slack Jawed Uneducated Staff!!!! I work in a nursing home but what observation of my level of
The mother has no income and is dependant herself.
and i fear that her family has to take care for 100 percent of the time.
a 50/50 division is not able. it is not even fair.
she went comatose when she was 15 years old.
I don't know if you can put a child up for adoption if it isn't your child. (grandparents decide?)
I don't think you will give away your grandchild if you have lost your daughter already.
I wonder if the mother ever comes out of it. missed most of her life
Hacienda HealthCare said in a statement that its board of directors had determined that it was not sustainable to continue operating the Phoenix facility, which serves infants, children and young adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities who require a high level of medical care.
The company said the board had voted to shut down the facility Feb. 1 and was working with state agencies to develop a plan to move 37 patients to other centers. Its skilled nursing facility will stay open.
I don't know what to say..
I mean really !! How can some creature be that low ??
I won't call those "creature" human.. Never...