A woman who pleaded guilty to defrauding an Alzheimer's patient of some $40,000 while serving as his caregiver has lost her appeal, which claimed she was given an excessive sentence.
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the sentence given to Veronica Lynn Floyd for three counts of theft of property over $10,000 and one count of theft of property over $1,000.
Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell sentenced Floyd to a total effective sentence of 13 years, of which she was ordered to serve only nine months in the county jail with the remainder of the term on community corrections.
Floyd was a caregiver for Bobby Kirk, who was described in court documents as being disabled and in "some beginning stages of Alzheimer's." Since 2006, Floyd had been helping out Kirk with picking up groceries and various other things.
Kirk had several sources of income from which bills were supposed to be paid, but over the course of four years, some of the bills were not paid and Floyd used the money, which she had access to with power of attorney, to benefit herself.
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Convicted Caregiver's Appeal Denied
5 comments:
I am glad this caregiver has been held accountable but the need to hold ALL those who exploit the elderly accountable is very real. Currently this country's, "Court Appointed Guardians" have a license to steal. Not only are the elderly's assets stolen but their very existence is stolen. People are being held against their will... issolated & medicated while their estates are liquidated.
Spread the word!! Thanks NASGA
The only difference between a caregiver with a power of attorney and a court-appointed fiduciary with a "License to Steal" is the license!
That's good news.
It's so hard to know what really happened because we don't get the whole story in the paper. If she stole, then I'm all for her appeal being denied. If she was railroaded, then she joins the ranks with the rest of us who lost appeals we should have won.
"Excessive sentence." Ha, ha, ha.
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