FRANKFORT, Ind.– A Frankfort father has filed a lawsuit against a mental health facility, alleging they drugged his then 12-year-old daughter and held her against her will.
Craig Inman filed the lawsuit on October 7 against Options Behavioral Health and its parent company Acadia Healthcare, which operates facilities across the country.
“She was tortured and held hostage,” said Craig Inman.
On September 2, he took his daughter to Witham Health Services emergency room in Lebanon after she swallowed a bottle of pills.
“My daughter had just tried to kill herself,” said Inman.
The emergency room transported his daughter an hour away to Options Behavioral Health Hospital, an inpatient psychiatric facility in Lawrence .
WRTVInman said he hoped his daughter would get the help she needed, but on the first day he and his wife Elizabeth had difficulty getting information from staff members.
“We just kept calling them and they were stonewalling us,” said Elizabeth Inman. “I couldn’t believe that because as a nurse I always take phone calls, and I always answer questions, especially parents.”