Records show top Eastern State Hospital officials were warned of domestic violence by nurse before

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Records show top Eastern State Hospital officials were warned of domestic violence by nurse before alleged murder


Less than two years before nurse Josh Phillips allegedly murdered Kassie Dewey, an Eastern State Hospital coworker he had dated, interim chief nursing officer Jayme Skehan received an email notifying her that Phillips had been arrested for domestic violence.

The Aug. 3, 2019, email from a lower-level supervisor said that Phillips had been jailed for attempting to strangle a different co-worker he was dating at the time. The email said that the co-worker, whom the Inlander will identify by her first name, Jennifer, "remains fearful of retaliation from Josh Phillips."

Skehan's short reply thanked the supervisor and told her to "follow up with HR as we should alert security," records show.

But as the Inlander reported in May, Eastern State failed to conduct its own investigation into the allegations before welcoming Phillips back to work months later. Instead, in a decision approved by CEO Mark Kettner, the hospital simply put him on an alternate assignment that forced Jennifer to get shift assignments from Phillips, who she says nearly tried to kill her.

Read more: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/records-show-top-eastern-state-hospital-officials-were-warned-of-domestic-violence-by-nurse-before-alleged-murder/Content?oid=21989406

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Firing him

would not have kept him from murdering her. He probably would have just stalked her anyway.

[ret5hd]

3. Yeah, nothing to do about it. might as well...

keep him on payroll. He didn’t do anything to me, and he did a decent job otherwise. Easier than training a new guy, and heck…I can say I once worked with a murderer…what a bar story!

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. That wasn't my argument at all

My point was that he probably would have killed her anyway. Hell, he probably would have blamed her for getting him fired! That's how those guys think.

[NewDayOranges]

6. Agreed! Those kind of men

Will step every line drawn for them... Attempts made to protect their victim only makes them angrier!

[Shrike47]

2. Appalling. Lily may have had to watch her mother be murdered, had to be stabbed herself, but

she’ll probably end up with a huge trust fund. She’d probably prefer to have her mother. I am befuddled by institutional behavior in situation like this.

[Faux pas]

5. Kickin' with disgust!