Ultimately, the caregiver ended up luring the woman to places away from the home’s video cameras before sexually assaulting her, state reports said.

Though AHCA said the home’s management “had general, if not concrete, knowledge” of the relationship, Baez was allowed to stay on staff until the victim told another staff member, who called the state’s abuse hotline.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested Baez on May 20, charging him with sexual battery. He was released on $20,000 bond.

In addition to the sexual assault case, the state’s findings detail another investigation that found the home was beset by violence after Ross had agreed to accept a young man, formerly a foster child, who told authorities he had learned to bully and assault others as a “coping” mechanism in foster care.

The home was faulted for allowing the resident to return to Hillandale even after he had been jailed for beating another resident in March. The man went on to attack six others in the home, slapping, punching and even biting one of them on the arm.

One female resident said the man “would also pretend to be a vampire and bite her on the neck,” the report stated. She did not report the abuse, she said, “because [the assailant] threatened to punch her if she did.” Another resident told investigators the man “would hit him in the head with a belt.”

Though administrators were aware of the violence, the complaint says, they did nothing. Instead, other residents tried to protect each other from the abuse.

The state’s actions come after years of problems at Hillandale, including the arrest and conviction of a caregiver for raping a woman with severe disabilities at the facility in 2005 and the death of a mentally ill man that authorities attributed to the facility’s neglect.

During one 18-month period, sheriff’s deputies were called to the home 174 times to investigate assaults, thefts and missing persons.