This article is very disturbing. I cannot believe that the nursing home did not recognize this obvious sociopath. A Victorian nursing home employee accused of pinning down a 98-year-old dementia patient “like an animal” and raping her was just doing his job, according to his defense lawyer. Henry Alexander, 35, of Mount Martha, is accused
I read an article this weekend about a resident who was physically and sexually assaulted by the groundskeeper for a nursing home facility. The family of an Alzheimer’s resident who was sexually assaulted by former Bedminster supervisor Robert Holland has sued him and the woman’s nursing home for civil damages. The late Helen Priester was 92
Nursing Home Abuse is on the rise even though less people are entering nursing homes with debilitating conditions according to recent data. The true number is probably much higher but The National Center on Elder Abuse estimates at least one in 20 nursing home patients has been the victim of abuse. There are nearly 1.4 million
I saw this story in a Pittsburgh paper. I can’t believe they gave probation to a nurse who lied, changed medical documents, and covered up the circumstances of neglect that caused the death of a nursing home resident. What kind of deterrent is this? Kathleen Galati who was a nursing home supervisor was sentenced to only
A former nursing aide who admitted raping and impregnating a profoundly disabled and defenseless woman at a Bloomingdale nursing home three years ago was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison. Reynaldo Brucal Jr., 20, pleaded guilty in November to aggravated criminal sexual assault of the then-23-year-old woman, who has cerebral palsy, is brain-damaged and
The owner and manager of a Palmetto nursing home has been arrested on a charge of neglecting an elderly person in connection with a large lesion found on the face of a resident there. According to reports, 85-year-old Ronald Larsen began living at the Palmetto Guest House in June, 2005. Jacqueline Dorelien took over the home
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