Yorktown Nursing Home Housekeeper Charged with Allegedly Raping Patient with Dementia

February 26, 2026

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace announced today that a housekeeper at the Yorktown Rehabilitation and Nursing Center was arrested and charged with multiple felonies for allegedly raping a resident with severe dementia at the facility.

Javier E. Barragan, 48, of Yorktown, was arraigned over the weekend in Yorktown Justice Court on Rape in the Second Degree, a class D felony, and Endangering the Welfare of an Incompetent* or Physically Disabled Person in the First Degree, a class E felony.

Justice Gary J. Raniolo set bail at $100,000 cash/$250,000 bond/$750,000 partially secured bond. Barragan is due back in court on March 10.

DA Cacace said: “The defendant is accused of taking advantage of an individual with dementia so severe she was incapable of consenting to his conduct. My heart breaks for the victim and what she suffered through. I am so proud of the nursing assistant in this case, whose interventions spared the victim further trauma and helped bring the defendant to justice. She has our entire community’s thanks and gratitude.”

According to a supporting deposition from a nursing assistant that was filed with the court, on Feb. 21, at approximately 7:00 a.m., the nursing assistant was making her final rounds when she approached a room where the door had been left open and the bed privacy curtains had been drawn. When she began to enter the room, she noticed moaning and/or grunting sounds, she said.

After pulling back the privacy curtains, she witnessed the defendant, a housekeeping employee, on the bed with a patient. The defendant was “actively engaging in sexual intercourse with her,” according to her deposition.

The patient has dementia so severe that she is incapable of consenting to sexual contact.

The case was investigated by the Yorktown Police Department.

The case is being prosecuted by Child and Elder Abuse Bureau Chief Owein Levin.

*NB: This is the language used in the statute.

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The charges against the defendant are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.