A severely disabled girl who was 5 years old when she was placed in a Chino group home has filed a lawsuit blaming San Bernardino County for her repeated sexual abuse at the hands of a nursing assistant who later was convicted of abusing her and three others.
The suit, filed Jan. 9 in San Bernardino Superior Court, claims De Leon Country Home had been the target of complaints about sexual abuse and neglect of children for more than 15 years and yet the county failed to act to protect the plaintiff or others.
Specifically, the county received a report in January 2015 of an “inappropriate relationship” between a staff