A Des Plaines-based social service agency that serves abused children
announced today that computer files containing personal and medical
information on almost 4,000 children who lived at agency facilities dating
back to 1992 are missing.
Maryville Academy, which last year worked with about 1,600 children in
residential, shelter and hospital programs, lost three files with
information on about 3,900 people, the agency said in an email this
afternoon. The files were either stolen or misplaced.
The files were in a locked storage room in Maryville?s facility in Des
Plaines. The agency is investigating how they may have disappeared, Sister
Catherine F. Ryan, Maryville?s executive director, said in the statement.
Data in the files may include birth dates, relatives? names, Social
Security numbers, medical treatment and other information.
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