Disabled kids and adults possibly ‘subjected to human sex experiments at care home’

A CARE home is being investigated for potentially subjecting disabled kids and adults to horrifying sex experiments.

Officials are investigating whether patients at the Glenwood Resource Center were forced to participate in “harmful and uncontrolled” studies.

The state-run center in Iowa is being investigated over “sexual arousal” and “optimal hydration” experiments, according to the Department of Human Services.

Claims of “harmful restraint practices” and unnecessary physical injury are also reportedly being probed.

The care home is also being investigated for potentially placing residents at risk with “inadequate medical and nursing care, physical nutritional management”, a letter from the DOJ reads.

Both children and adults are patients at the facility, Iowa Department of Human Services Spokesman Matt Highland confirmed in an email to Sun Online.

There have been 11 deaths at the care home since 2019, three of which have happened in the last eight weeks, Highland said.

A spokesperson for the agency told Sun Online there have been allegations of children being used in experiments but that there was only one minor at the facility as of last year.

GRC serves about 250 Iowans with intellectual disabilities, many of whom have other health problems, according to .

GRC Superintendent Jerry Rea was placed on administrative leave Monday following the investigation launched by the DOJ in November.

The government agency is looking into “whether the State of Iowa engages in a pattern or practice of violating the federal rights” of GRC residents.

Although state officials deny the controversy at the center, the Iowa DHS has been plagued by accusations of improper restraint at juvenile facilities among the deaths at Glenwood.

At least 14 severely disabled residents of the institution have died since last June, according to the .

Eight of those residents died within the first quarter of 2019 – three times the normal rate.