LAWRENCE, Ind. — A new lawsuit filed against an Indianapolis-area mental health facility claims a juvenile patient was abused, held against her will and subjected to “intolerable” abuse while receiving treatment last month.
The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 7 in Marion County court against Options Behavioral Health in Lawrence and parent company Acadia Healthcare. The suit was filed by the father of a young girl who was allegedly held against her will while being tortured in the facility in September.
The Indiana father filed the lawsuit after his daughter had an “atrocious and utterly intolerable” experience at Options that went “beyond all possible bounds of decency.”…