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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.

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.

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.