Hunterdon County caretakers sentenced to 3 years in state prison after 2 women died from neglect
Published: Friday, February 03, 2012, 10:10 AM Updated: Friday, February 03, 2012, 2:22 PM
By Christopher Baxter/Statehouse Bureau The Star-Ledger
Star-Ledger file photoThe owner of a state-licensed home for disabled adults in Bloomsbury was sentenced to three years after authorities removed three residents under her care, including two who later died.
BLOOMSBURY — The owner of a state-licensed home for disabled adults in Bloomsbury and a former government caseworker were sentenced today to three years in state prison in connection with the neglect of three women who had been under their care, including two who later died.
The owner, Debra Sloan, 57, and the former caseworker from the state Department of Human Services, Bridget Grimes, 55, of Phillipsburg, pleaded guilty last year to neglect of a disabled person and theft, the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Grimes also pleaded guilty to official misconduct.
It was the first time in recent history that a department caseworker was held criminally liable for failing to provide proper care, the department said.
From 2002 to 2008, Sloan and Grimes were responsible for the care of the three women — Tara O’Leary, Erin Germaine and Lydia Joy Perry — who court records show suffered from serious neglect.
Germaine and O’Leary were malnourished, confined to their beds and denied proper medical treatment, according to a 2009 indictment, and Perry was forced to care for O’Leary.
All three women were removed from the home in September 2008. O’Leary died two months later, and Perry died in 2009 of an intestinal ailment after being transferred to another home.
Sloan and Grimes are barred from caring for other elderly or disabled people, the prosecutor
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