Blog Posts in October, 2010
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Posted on Oct 31, 2010
In the Helena, Montana area, a felony elder abuse trial is underway in regard to Arthur L. Heffelfinger who reportedly exploited an elderly person. He is reportedly accused of taking $390,000 from an ...
Posted on Oct 30, 2010
A jury in a Texas nursing home abuse case has not bought the argument that a patient's bedsores were unavoidable. The nursing home abuse lawsuit was brought by a family whose family member suffered ...
Posted on Oct 29, 2010
A nursing home is being accused of abuse and neglect after a woman reportedly broke her leg multiple times, but was not provided with any medical relief while at the home. The broken leg reportedly ...
Posted on Oct 28, 2010
A nursing home in southern Illinois is closing as it reportedly failed to comply with safety regulations. Orchard Court Nursing Home currently had 15 residents and has now surrendered its license and ...
Posted on Oct 27, 2010
A former nurse has reportedly pleaded no contest to elder abuse in a class action lawsuit case. Marlene Delp reportedly stole the pain medications of various residents at the nursing home Terraces of ...
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
A nursing home, Evergreen Gridley Healthcare Center, is facing a lawsuit in regard to abuse. The lawsuit claims that a now-deceased victim was abused at the residency. It is being reported that the ...
Posted on Oct 25, 2010
Brianna Broitzman, who reportedly physically and sexually abused nursing home residents, has been sentenced in the matter. She is facing 180 days in jail as a staggered sentence. She will serve 60 ...
Posted on Oct 24, 2010
A man in the Colebrook, Connecticut area has been charged with elder abuse after he reportedly got into an argument with an elder man and assaulted him. The man, Dean Cormier, reportedly also pushed ...
Posted on Oct 23, 2010
A woman in the Gwinnett County, Georgia area has reportedly stolen at least $10,000 from a man who she was caring for at an assisted-living facility. Veronica Martin is reportedly being charged with ...
Posted on Oct 22, 2010
A couple who has been accused of elder abuse is back in jail after being arrested in Texas. Matthew and Marian Fonseca are now being charged with tampering with evidence and cruelty to a person over ...
Posted on Oct 21, 2010
A man in the Pflugeville, Texas area has been accused of sexually assaulting a nursing home resident. Mario Rojas Lara reportedly sexually assaulted someone at the nursing home center, but it is ...
Posted on Oct 20, 2010
Elder abuse appears to be on the rise, although it is not commonly talked about. The matter often stays hidden as some of the elderly are unable to report the abuse or afraid to do so. Also, there is ...
Posted on Oct 20, 2010
Ashton Larson was accused of more than a dozen counts of elder abuse while employed at Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea, and, on October 14, she entered guilty pleas to three counts of disorderly ...
Posted on Oct 19, 2010
In the Laguna Hills, California area at Palm Terrace Healthcare Center, elder abuse is being alleged as a nursing home patient recently died. The resident was reportedly beaten by his roommate with a ...
Posted on Oct 18, 2010
A Santa Ana, California judge has decided that a claim of elder abuse by a retirement community's property manager was not legally permissible. It was decided that the individual elders would have to ...
Posted on Oct 17, 2010
A woman in the Woodlake, California area has been arrested on suspicion of elder abuse and fraud. Marlene Brant was arrested on charges of suspicion of committing financial elder abuse and more that ...
Posted on Oct 16, 2010
Jean Rudolph has died from untreated bed sores that reportedly burrowed all the way to her bone. She reportedly suffered for twenty-two days without receiving any proper care. Now, the person ...
Posted on Oct 15, 2010
In Indiana, it may soon become a requirement for nursing homes to process background checks on those who will work for them. This is an effort to provide better protection to the nursing home ...
Posted on Oct 14, 2010
A woman who was caring for an elderly woman has been arrested after she reportedly was stealing funds from the woman. The woman was reportedly withdrawing money from the elderly woman's bank account ...
Posted on Oct 13, 2010
In New York, nursing home workers have been indicted on abuse charges. Nine people were reportedly involved and charged with not appropriately caring for a patient deemed incapacitated and for ...
Posted on Oct 12, 2010
Savion Nkosi Hays has been arrested on reports of elder abuse and threats in the Clearlake, California area. Hays reportedly took up temporary residence in the area with an elderly woman and had ...
Posted on Oct 11, 2010
A Hanover, Massachusetts man has been sentenced to jail time after he pleaded guilty to assault and battery on a person over 60 and assault and battery. John T. Hallinan was found to be abusing an ...
Posted on Oct 11, 2010
A nursing home abuse claim has been filed in Butte County Superior Court against the Evergreen Gridley Healthcare Center for not treating, and then ill-treating, 94-year old William Paul Bonds, as ...
Posted on Oct 10, 2010
A woman in the Woodlake, California area has been arrested on suspicion of elder abuse and fraud as she reportedly took advantage of the elderly. She is being accused of committing financial elder ...
Posted on Oct 9, 2010
A man and his mother in Escondido, California have been accused of elder neglect in regard to a resident at their elder care facility. An elderly resident at the home suffers from dementia and from ...
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