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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rebecca Thomas

Police investigating ‘sexual assault’ at scandal-hit children’s hospital as watchdog threatens closure

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Police are investigating fresh allegations of sexual assault against a child patient by a care worker at a scandal-hit private mental health hospital group.

It is the second time reports have been made about a former Huntercombe Group hospital after two care workers were quizzed over the alleged rape of a child at its Taplow Manor Hospital in Maidenhead last year.

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