At the behest of Feuer's office, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday also appointed a receiver to immediately begin relocating those being cared for at the two facilities with the assistance of state and county officials.
The two facilities, Agape Mission House and Agape Home Church — located at 2205 and 2217-19 South Hobart Blvd. in the historic Adams district, just a short distance from First AME Church — are also unlicensed, the city attorney's office said.
“These residents are among the most vulnerable in our society and they were forced to live a daily nightmare,” Feuer said. “We are bringing that nightmare to a close."
According to court documents, residents at the facilities would be punished for failure to attend religious services twice a day, despite their individual beliefs.
The punishments allegedly included being made to stand by a tree for up to four hours, being required to translate Bible verses for an entire day and sleeping outside at night.
The lawsuit also alleges that the operators collected county or federal benefits cards as rent at the beginning of each month and denied residents access to their own money.
From January 2011 to October 2013, Los Angeles police reported receiving more than 180 calls related to the properties, including a dozen attempted suicides, numerous assaults and batteries, assault with a deadly weapon, narcotics activity, indecent exposure and burglary from a motor vehicle.
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City Attorney: Assisted Living Facility Abused, Punished Residents
The two facilities, Agape Mission House and Agape Home Church — located at 2205 and 2217-19 South Hobart Blvd. in the historic Adams district, just a short distance from First AME Church — are also unlicensed, the city attorney's office said.
“These residents are among the most vulnerable in our society and they were forced to live a daily nightmare,” Feuer said. “We are bringing that nightmare to a close."
According to court documents, residents at the facilities would be punished for failure to attend religious services twice a day, despite their individual beliefs.
The punishments allegedly included being made to stand by a tree for up to four hours, being required to translate Bible verses for an entire day and sleeping outside at night.
The lawsuit also alleges that the operators collected county or federal benefits cards as rent at the beginning of each month and denied residents access to their own money.
From January 2011 to October 2013, Los Angeles police reported receiving more than 180 calls related to the properties, including a dozen attempted suicides, numerous assaults and batteries, assault with a deadly weapon, narcotics activity, indecent exposure and burglary from a motor vehicle.
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City Attorney: Assisted Living Facility Abused, Punished Residents
That's good news, but why did it take so long?
ReplyDeleteThis is encouraging. Put the heat on these bad facilities and they'll start cleaning up their act.
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference a jurisdiction makes.
ReplyDeleteIn Virginia Beach, the City Attorney's Office, mainly Christianna Dougherty-Cunningham but other supervisory attorneys as well, including sometime-judicial candidate Christopher Boynton, attempted to cheat an elderly lady out of an attorney she was GUARANTEED BY LAW at the behest of corrupt social workers from Adult Protective Services and Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia.
Even though these scumbag lawyers LOST on that issue and EVERY SINGLE SUBSEQUENT MOTION, that did not stop them for one minute. They just VIOLATED A COURT ORDER and dumped this sweet elderly former APS worker into one of the six hellholes with 400 victims run by the notorious Scott Schuett for seven agonizing months.
Please google Scott Schuett for the horrific details.
And yes, Scott Schuett is now shut down, but these publicly-paid attorneys, APS workers, and case managers or CCEVA are STILL IN BUSINESS, for now at least ....
Time to stop this publicly sponsored, publicly funded abuse and neglect, and all of the unethical "professionals" who participated, enabled, and covered it up.
Yes, wy did it take so long?
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