License revocation proceedings have begun
against Sonoma Valley’s embattled Hanna Boys Center following a year of
controversy in which a former top manager was charged with molesting
four children, a second employee was accused of having sex with a youth
and the facility was slapped with numerous civil lawsuits containing
further allegations of abuse.
A six-page complaint filed late last
month by the Community Care Licensing Division of the Department of
Social Services seeks to stop the 73-year-old Catholic Church-based
center on Arnold Drive from operating as a group home while stripping
its former clinical director, Kevin Scott Thorpe, of the ability to ever
work in a state-licensed facility again.
Thorpe,
39, of Rohnert Park, was arrested in June after a former resident came
forward, alleging Thorpe sexually abused him over a five-year period. An
investigation turned up three more former residents who claim Thorpe
molested them at the facility and during off-site, solo outings, in
incidents dating back to at least 2006.
State looks to close Hanna Boys Center
