After the Hacienda Healthcare rape, Arizona built a group home watchdog. Now it’s being defunded.

By: Caitlin Sievers

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: July 16, 2026

Words: 1,604

Last Updated: 6 days, 4 hours ago

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An independent oversight program created in response to a horrific rape, meant to protect some of Arizona’s most vulnerable people, will cease at the end of this year unless it finds a new funding source, a casualty of Arizona’s newest bipartisan state budget.

In 2018, a 29-year-old woman who had developmental disabilities and could not walk or talk gave birth in her bed at Hacienda Healthcare, a residential care facility in Phoenix. Her caregivers …

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