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Monday, July 27, 2015

Abuse victim escapes, Holyoke Personal Care Assistant charged

Victim told police abuse has been going on for years.

By Cadence Acquaviva Published: July 23, 2015, 5:20 am Updated: July 23, 2015, 8:38 am

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – A Personal Care Assistant, Jo Ann Engleston, of Holyoke, is facing charges after police say she abused a woman with disabilities who was in her care.
Holyoke Police Lt. Jim Albert told 22News that on Friday, the 66-year-old victim escaped Engleston (who was her live-in personal care assistant) and walked nearly a mile to the Loomis House on Jarvis Avenue. Police say the victim walks with a prosthetic leg and a walker, and that the journey took her more than two hours.
Loomis House staff called police, and took care of the woman until an ambulance could arrive. She was taken to Holyoke Medical Center with bruises all over her face and arms. Albert says the woman reported being abused by Engleston for more than five years, saying that she was sometimes “struck by wet towels.”
Engleston, 51, is charged with assault and battery on an elderly or disabled person, domestic assault and battery on a family or household member, and threat to commit a crime.
Holyoke police and Greater Springfield Senior Services are continuing to look into the case.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

York woman accused of defrauding elderly man

BY JONATHAN MCFADDEN

jmcfadden@heraldonline.comApril 17, 2013

Marianne Silvers

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ROCK HILL — A York woman has been charged with exploiting a vulnerable adult in Rock Hill after police say she defrauded an elderly man in her care over the course of several months.

Marianne Joan Silvers, 48, of 118 Providence Place, is charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult, according to a Rock Hill Police report. She was arrested Tuesday, but released from jail on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond.

Last month, York County’s office of the Department of Social Services gave Rock Hill Police documents showing that a Bank of America investigator found that 33 checks were cashed in the name of an 89-year-old resident of Park Pointe Village retirement community in Rock Hill, according to a Rock Hill Police report.

The checks were made payable to Silvers, who was paid $15 an hour to assist the man a few hours each week, the report states. Police discovered that Silvers cashed $6,222 beyond her pay. She was privately hired and not an employee of Park Pointe.

Police issued a warrant charging Silvers with abuse of a vulnerable adult, the report states. She turned herself in on Tuesday.

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