Injury Charges to Analyst Filed

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Jefferson Circuit Court judge was asked by the office of the attorney general to prohibit a behavioral analyst from seeing patients while facing a charge of injury and criminal abuse. Jeffrey Dillen, working at a psychiatric hospital named Our Lady of Peace, pleaded not guilty to this charge.

According to reports, Dillen, 28, allegedly allowed a 17-year-old teen to hit her head hard on a concrete floor over 120 times during treatment. Dillen’s purpose is to find out the cause of the teen’s self-injury behavior.

Dillen was booked into Metro Corrections but already released. He is now on administrative leave from the hospital but still seen to be working with contract patients. A hearing with Judge Mary Shaw is set on Friday to hear arguments whether Dillen should see patients under indictment.

According to the indictment, Dillen placed the teen in a situation that caused her cruel confinement, torture, or serious physical injury. Also, he disregarded the doctor’s order to place a helmet on the patient’s head to protect her if she would bang her head.

An attorney for Dillen, Mark Chandler, declined to comment. Moreover, he filed a motion with the court yesterday to make sure that the video and medical records of the teen be sealed when filed.

Though the girl has diagnosis of mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and autism, report said that she stopped banging her head when a helmet was put on her head. The inspector was also surprised to learn that the incident was told to the doctor only after 21 hours later.

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