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In late February 2016, a client of the agency in Lewisburg said she performed oral sex on an employee. The <br />facility waited several days before it reported the incident to Adult Protective Services, and the employee <br />Pdmitted to the girl's allegation after her guardian called police, OHFLAC found. <br />Management placed the employee on administrative leave several days after the girl reported him. <br />nnn <br />Marjorie Carpenter joined Kenova Group Home — a ResCare facility — as a registered nurse in 2003, later <br />taking a job as the director of nursing in 2008, according to a lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court. <br />Carpenter started to bring issues to the attention of management in 2011. She was concerned about abuse, <br />patients' privacy rights and illegal drug use by employees, the suit states. <br />Other employees accused her of harassment, and the investigation into their complaints led to Carpenter's <br />concerns being labeled as "foolish and unfounded," the suit alleges. <br />gave OHFLAC surveyors a disc of information regarding privacy violations on Sept. 13, 2011. On the <br />same day, her supervisor said an employee resigned in April and claimed Carpenter created a hostile work <br />environment, the suit states. <br />According to OHFLAC records, a confidential informant gave surveyors a collection of photographs and <br />videos exhibiting abuse. One video showed a client hiding her face and crying. She begged the person filming <br />to turn off the camera, but the tape continued. Laughter can be heard in the background. <br />Someone photographed another client with her jeans pulled lower than normal and her undergarments <br />stretched "extremely high:' Some of the pictures appeared on Facebook, and surveyors later discovered the <br />files came from a company computer. <br />The center's executive director lost his job over the incident, and the facility placed Carpenter on <br />administrative leave for "creating a hostile environment;' according to the suit. Though she had no <br />ir,-,lvement in the wrongdoing, the company apparently fired her about a month later. <br />In 2015, a woman employed by a ResCare office in Buckhannon said she suffered from nightmares after a <br />client tried to rape her at an understaffed residential facility. <br />