A former Slidell nursing home worker who stole the wedding ring off the finger of an incapacitated resident must spend the next five years imprisoned, a St. Tammany Parish judge has decided.Domenica Thomas, 42, pleaded guilty to charges of simple robbery and theft of assets from an aged person before state Judge Peter Garcia sentenced her Wednesday in Covington.
Simple robbery carries no more than seven years' imprisonment and a possible fine. Depending on the value of what was stolen, theft of assets from an aged person can be punished by both a fine and up to 10 years in prison. Garcia gave Thomas a concurrent five years for each charge.
Thomas has also been accused of stealing from five other residents at the nursing home, and those cases are still pending, said Rick Wood, a spokesman for the parish District Attorney's Office.
Thomas had been an aide at Greenbriar Nursing Home for about nine months before she went into a 71-year-old man's room without permission on Jan. 4 this year. She gave him a glass of water, according to police, and snatched his ring and $10 from him before she left.
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Slidell Nursing Home Worker Gets 5 Years' Prison for Stealing Resident's Wedding Ring
Five years is reasonable.
ReplyDeleteYep, that's about right.
ReplyDeleteQUESTION: Is it reasonable to conclude that this is NOT the first time this crook stole from another person?
ReplyDeleteHow many times did this perp take what did not belong to her? She got caught.
In the news there is a clone of this crook who stole a wedding ring from a deceased woman in the hosptial; he took the ring to a pawn shop where it was going to be melted down, he got his cash so the crook could pay his cable bill.
How many times did this crook (who admitted his guilt by the way because he was probably on video) steal from a patient in the hospital living or deceased?