Shocking Facility Elder Abuse Caught on Tape
NEWSER) – Three workers at a nursing home in Pennsylvania have been arrested after being caught on tape hitting and mocking an elderly woman who suffers from dementia. Relatives of the 78-year-old woman installed a hidden camera after officials at the home rejected their suspicions that she was being abused, ABC News reports. The woman had told her daughter she was being punched and slapped by staff, asking: "Why do they keep picking on me?"
The video shows the employees "engaging in acts which I can only describe as humiliating, taunting and abusive of the victim in this case, including forcing the victim to stand topless for several minutes while the defendant and the other employees mocked her," the district attorney said. "The way the defendants allegedly abused this victim is inexcusable. Patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s are among our most vulnerable citizens." The three employees have been charged with offenses including aggravated assault
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Editor's note: When family of wards under the supervision of the Probate Court of Cook County make complaints of nursing home elder abuse to GAL's, nothing is done to remedy the situation. The incestuous relationship between the court and the bribes provided by the nursing homes assures a blind eye by the court. The judges will do nothing to abridge their proprietary interest in their cash cows. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Editor's note: Tami's comment 4-14-11. Tami, interesting that you bring up this point of the family's desperate act of "videoing" the act of brutality. Evidently, the court mentioned in the article is far ahead morally when compared to the Probate Court of Cook County. When your ProbateShark requested his GAL to present recorded evidence to the judge in a case involving illegality, the judge refused to hear the recordings.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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This video is tragic. This woman suffers from dementia and was probably complaining to both the nursing home and her family about the abuse. I'm sure the nursing home disregarded her complaints due to her "dementia" which probably happens more than we know. The family had no choice but to take the law into their own hands and set up a video camera in order to prove the allegations. This is what it's come down to when it comes to elder abuse - taking the law into our own hands because no one else seems to care.
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