Authorities were warned a schizophrenic and intellectually disabled woman had been sexually assaulted at a psychiatric hospital months before she fell pregnant there. The woman’s partner yesterday said that before the pregnancy, she had complained of being groped, pinned against walls and stalked by fellow patients at The Park Centre for Mental Health at Wacol, in Brisbane’s west. He provided documents showing he had raised concerns about her safety in a mixed-gender ward. “In the last five months, she has been sexually assaulted once, assaulted by other patients four times,” he wrote to the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service four months before the pregnancy. “You keep young female patients in … locked wards with male patients and expose them to sexual assaults.”
