“I wasn’t a tenant anymore,” Hill testified recently. “I’d become a hostage.”
Hill, 59, said he was trapped in a windowless basement room in a DeKalb County home for almost six months ending in March 2010, sharing the room with a mentally disabled stranger. For breakfast, they got Ramen noodles in Country Crock margarine containers; for dinner, two bologna sandwiches. They used 5-gallon paint buckets for toilets.
Their landlord, Chandra Renee Faust, 43, now faces criminal charges. County and state officials say the allegations shine light on a disturbing and growing phenomenon in which freelancing caregivers and renters prey on vulnerable people to get access to their disability checks.
DeKalb District Attorney Robert James said Faust offered to take the two men into her home to care for them.
“But in reality, they were being neglected and exploited,” he said. “This is a call to action. There are people taking in our seniors and disabled adults to get rich. They need to be licensed, they should be regulated and if there’s neglect and abuse, they should be punished.”
A DeKalb grand jury in December indicted Faust for false imprisonment, identity fraud, theft and exploitation and abuse of the disabled.
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Caregiver Crime Growing Trend
4 comments:
Hey! What is government supposed to be doing if not to protect us from crime?
This article does not mention the huge growth in abusive guardianships in our country to exploit seniors. Guardianship's are a license to steal with little to no court oversight. Often the attorneys are on the take as well. My mother is under a guardianship after being taken from her family & home to FL. Jetta Getty is the guardian appointed to get this sorted out and protect my mom. Problem being Jetta Getty NEVER bothered to tell the court that mom was not a resident or domiciliary of FL. Getty fought to keep mom in Florida and did I mention Getty has charged mom's estate approx. 15,000 PER YEAR for her own fees & wasted approx. $150,000.00 on legal fees. Getty requested unnecessary perscription drugs Give that name a google... "Jetta Getty."
I do not know if this is a growing thing or if it's growing because our elerly population is growing.
Preying on the elderly is as cowardly as preying on children.
I don't believe its a growing crime trend. I believe its a well established crime trend.
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