DEVON (ENGLAND)
Devon Live
March 6, 2018
By Rom Preston-Ellis
Officers want to speak people who were either employees or patients at Moorhaven Hospital in 1976
An investigation is taking place into allegations of historic sexual abuse at a former psychiatric hospital in Devon.
Police have asked people who were either employees or patients at Moorhaven Hospital near Ivybridge in 1976 to come forward.
It is alleged that a woman was raped in the grounds of the hospital during that year.
Detective Constable Josie Haines from Devon and Cornwall Police’s sexual offence and domestic abuse investigation team, said: “We have been supporting a woman who has suffered in silence for many years, and we are turning to the public for their help in this matter.
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