That place needs to be closed and those running it banned from care work altogether.
I worked for many years in residential nursing care and like a pp with similar experience agree there's no fucking way SOMEONE other than the perpetrator/s didn't know what was happening. I suspect many knew and said nothing, who makes them little better than the abusers.
As a carer a BIG part of your role is protecting your clients and advocating for them.
"I've long believed that the term 'coma' is misleading" it's more the case there's a lack of education of non medical people that there's different levels of coma.
I think criticising it as an American issue is arrogant and disingenuous given our own history here. Savile being the best known example but there are lesser known cases in the uk too.
"Opportunity, and the belief that they’ll get away with it." I think there's a strong element of denial (in the clinical not the informal flippant sense) and/or cognitive dissonance too in many cases. Many rapists just wouldn't describe their actions as rape. See all the threads (that appear with frightening regularity) by op's married to/living with men who assault/rape them regularly. Often the victims are in denial too.
But in this case it's very very clearly rape, in a way that no sane person could possibly refute.
Blythe - totally agree! Also someone in that condition would have other obs made - eg bp, pulse & resps rates, weight etc which all change through pregnancy.
Heartbreaking, infuriating and depressing.