A criminal investigation is under way after state health officials released a report about abuse at an assisted living facility on Minnesota's Iron Range.
Virginia Police Chief Dana Waldron said Thursday that police are looking at the report by the state Office of Health Facility Complaints.
According to the report, three nursing aides pinched, slapped and threw rubber balls at a resident with Alzheimer's disease and told another resident to "shut up" while calling him names.
The employees no longer work at Edgewood Vista in Virginia.
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Virginia Police Investigating Elder Abuse
5 comments:
This isn't the first incidence of abusing Alzheimer's patients that's been in the news.
What would possess anybody to be that cruel?
I hope to see criminal indictments on the three abusers very soon.
Not only that, but the facility should be pursing these indictments.
Very sad, makes me cry.
These mean cruel people need to do prison time to send a clear message to others they better do their jobs properly or else. If not, good advice would be to get out of the facility and into a different career post haste.
How many others knew about this uncivilized behavior? How long was this abuse going on? I think these are reasonable and valid questions.
Sounds like Michael Vick wanna be's?
Interestingly and sadly, the ongoing outrage over the animal abuse especially Vick's cold heart and iron fist, the brutality he showed again and again towards dogs generates more attention and gets more people into gathering for action than the cases of elder abuse.
Prison time at least. And then they should be forced to do several years of community service.
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