Facility Evaluation Report

Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Maria (Mita) Partoza, conducted an unannounced case management – incident visit to deliver the findings of the alleged sexual abuse of a resident while in care. LPA was greeted by 3 staff, and 2 residents. Administrator (ADM) Joelito Pongyan was not present at the time of LPAs arrival. Staff called ADM and stated that ADM is on his/her way to the facility.

The facility serves 18 to 59 years who are developmentally disabled.

On 09/03/2025, the Department received and incident report stating that resident 1 (R1) was sexually assaulted by a staff 1 (S1). The Department investigated the incident, and the narrative is as follows:

The incident occurred on 09/01/2025, wherein R1 was consistent with his/her account of the incident to various parties when interviewed. Based on the initial interview R1 consented to S1 kissing him/her on the cheek and lips but did not consent to S1s intimate kissing nor touching private parts.

R1 made the statement to his/her responsible party (RP), law enforcement (LE) and facility staff (S2) that were inconsistent. R1 stated that S1 asked R1 to sit on S1s lap and described S1's physically description but did not name S1. According to RP, R1 never described S1 physically attributes. R1 always refer to the S1 as the “new” staff. R1 stated to LE, that he/she consented to S1 touching his/her private part but did not consent to kissing his/her private part.