Three workers accused of raping underage girls at an acclaimed upper Manhattan psychiatric treatment center have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor endangering charges and will do no prison time.
Sentenced to three years’ probation yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court was Edward Tapia, 27, a security guard accused of raping two patients, the younger only 14, at the August Aichhorn Center, on West 106th Street, in 2007. A fellow guard, Phree Noel, 33, charged with raping one patient, is to be sentenced in two weeks.
Milton Venable, 46, accused of one assault, was conditionally discharged last October.