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  • Blake Ellis
    Senior Writer, CNN Investigates

    Blake Ellis is an award-winning investigative reporter for CNN. Her work has exposed everything from widespread sexual abuse in nursing homes to one of the longest-running scams in history. It has also inspired legislative action and government investigation. Email her at watchdog@cnn.com.

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  • Alexandra "Alex" Carington, 63, with her mother Lenore Greenfield, 88, at the Holiday Manor Care Center, a nursing facility in Canoga Park, California. Alexandra prepares Lenore for an afternoon nap.

    Why was my mother prescribed a little red pill?

    A daughter's attempt to find out why her elderly mother was prescribed a medication called Nuedexta.
  • Scenes from the room of an alleged victim in Haywood County on Wednesday, February 1, 2017. Luis Gomez is accused of sexually assaulting nursing home residents while working as a CNA.

    Sick, dying and raped in America's nursing homes

    The unthinkable is happening at facilities across the country: Vulnerable senior citizens are being raped and sexually abused by the very people paid to care for them.
  • An alleged victim snuggles with a doll she calls Little Missy in her room at a nursing home facility in Haywood County.

    Six women. Three nursing homes. And the man accused of rape and abuse.

    Luis Gomez appeared to many to be the perfect nursing aide. But now a different image has emerged.
  • The Brian Center in Waynesville, N.C., on Wednesday, February 1, 2017. Luis Gomez is accused of sexually assaulting nursing home residents while working as a CNA. He worked at The Brian Center most recently and most of the alleged victims who have come forward lived here.

    No one believed he would rape nursing home residents. Now he is going to prison

    By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN
    At first, no one believed them when they said the charming, well-liked aide in the nursing home where they lived had raped them.
  • Bobbi Young holds a photo of her mother, Marilyn Young, the day after she passed away at home in Carmel Valley, Calif., on Monday, January 9, 2017. Marilyn Young contracted an STD after being raped at the age of 88 by an unknown assailant in a California nursing home.

    My mother was raped at 88

    A daughter's story about how her mother was raped at age 88 -- but never defeated.
  • The little red pill being pushed on the elderly

    CNN investigation exposes inappropriate use of drug in nursing homes
  • How CNN reported on Nuedexta

    By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken and Sergio Hernandez, CNN Investigates
    CNN has released an investigation exposing the inappropriate a