CHICAGO (WLS) -- A former counselor sexually abused children in "repeated attacks" over eight years at the West Side hospital where he worked, prosecutors allege.

Edmund Rivers, 68, has been charged with five counts of sexual assault. Prosecutors say he abused "boys between 7 and 14 years old" at the facility between 1996 and 2004.

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Prosecutors say the alleged abuse of minors took place in multiple locations at Hartgrove Behavioral Health Hospital, which has since moved to a different location on the West Side.

Prosecutors added that five survivors came forward after learning of a civil lawsuit brought against Hartgrove Hospital last year.

Martin Gould is one of the attorneys representing dozens of former patients in that lawsuit

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