Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Geneva, Illinois (WLS) Disturbing new details have been revealed about a hostage situation earlier this month at a west suburban hospital.
Two nurses who were taken hostage by a jail inmate are filing a lawsuit.
They allege the inmate's guards didn't follow protocol. In addition, one of them was sexually assaulted.
The nurses have not returned to work since the May 13 standoff, still traumatized by the incident. And they want someone held accountable for not keeping watch of a serial felony offender.
Inmate Tywon Salters held one Delnor Hospital nurse against her will for three and a half hours, allegedly beating and raping the nurse. Salters was hospitalized May 8 after ingesting cleaning fluid and trying to eat his jail-issued sandal.
Read more here: abc7chicago.com/news/nurse-sexually-assaulted-during-hostage-ordeal-at-geneva-hospital-lawsuit-says/2035530
Geneva, Illinois (WLS) Disturbing new details have been revealed about a hostage situation earlier this month at a west suburban hospital.
Two nurses who were taken hostage by a jail inmate are filing a lawsuit.
They allege the inmate's guards didn't follow protocol. In addition, one of them was sexually assaulted.
The nurses have not returned to work since the May 13 standoff, still traumatized by the incident. And they want someone held accountable for not keeping watch of a serial felony offender.
Inmate Tywon Salters held one Delnor Hospital nurse against her will for three and a half hours, allegedly beating and raping the nurse. Salters was hospitalized May 8 after ingesting cleaning fluid and trying to eat his jail-issued sandal.
Read more here: abc7chicago.com/news/nurse-sexually-assaulted-during-hostage-ordeal-at-geneva-hospital-lawsuit-says/2035530
