Megan Marie Penney is a nursing assistant based in Fayette, Iowa.

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Penny is a former nursing assistant at Prairie View Management Facility in Fayette, Iowa.

She is a single mother of one child.

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She resides in Clermont, Iowa.

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On Tuesday March 6, 2018, Penney and Paige Lynn Johanningmeier were arrested on accusations of having sexual relations with patients from an Iowa psychiatric facility.

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An investigation began when the Prairie View Management Facility in Fayette reported two patients had disappeared on February 21, 2018.

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Four days later, deputies with the Fayette Sheriff’s Office learned the missing patients were seen with Penney and Johanningmeier.

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Authorities soon determined Penney and Paige Johanningmeier had developed a relationship with the two patients and once they had left the facility it became sexual.

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They both were arrested on a felony sexual exploitation charge related to their position as counselors.

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