Acadia Healthcare: Options Behavioral Staff Failed to Seek Emergency Medical Care for Teen after Violent Assault

July 29, 2025

Wyllow Canales, who is 13, was attacked by another patient on her fifth day inside Options Behavioral Health Hospital.

A 12-year-old boy slammed her head into the ground, stomped on her rib cage and threatened to kill her, according to a police report filed after the April 7 assault.

But when the girl asked for help afterward, police and dispatch records show, none of the staff at the Lawrence-based facility called 911.

“They said I had ‘inside bruises,’” Wyllow told Mirror Indy in July, “and they’d go away in a few days.”

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