Mental patient’s abuse ignored

ABILENE, Texas — A Texas mental health facility and its staff members prevail over a former patient’s civil rights lawsuit alleging a staff member sexually abused him while he was at the facility. The patient could only show that an assistant administrator was aware of the alleged abuse before he left the facility, and at the time, the Fifth Circuit had not established failure to protect from sexual abuse as a violation of one’s constitutional rights outside of school contexts, so the assistant administrator did not have “fair notice that her actions violated clearly established law.”