CHICAGO — The chief executive of a troubled network of group homes told a judge Friday that he didn’t know the whereabouts of six of his residents with developmental disabilities.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Disability Services CEO Reuben Goodwin Sr. also admitted it wasn’t clear that any of the six had their medications with them when they left the homes run by his company, which lost its license because of safety concerns.
Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen Pantle responded by scolding Goodwin and questioning his attorney Michael Kelly.
Kelly told the court Friday morning that the six residents served as their own guardians and went home with relatives, but he could not provide their names or phone numbers.
The judge encouraged the state to file missing persons reports with police, but Assistant Attorney General Jessica Durkin said that couldn’t be done because the state wasn’t given the specific date when each resident was last seen.
At that point, Durkin questioned Goodwin about when each of the missing residents had left and asked for the names and phone numbers of the family members they left with.
Goodwin said he didn’t have any of those details and only knew that they left sometime after Nov. 28, the date Disability Services lost its license.