This was found during an inspection conducted by the Georgia Department of Community Health to verify if the facility met state requirements.
Two months prior to the arrests, allegations of human trafficking and sexual exploitation emerged after healthcare workers Marcus and KaShonda Miles were arrested.
Columbus Police began investigating the facility with agents from the FBI, Georgia Healthcare Facility Regulation Division, and other officials after learning that the licensed care facility was allegedly sending patients to unlicensed group homes. According to officials, Drakeford would take some elderly and disabled adults into her own home because the facility was overcrowded. Some patients slept on couches or bathroom floors due to lack of living space.
The "more obnoxious and troubling" patients" were sent to unlicensed facilities with even worse conditions. They would endure both physical cruelty and sexual abuse.
Patients were not given enough food to eat, and some food that was found in the facility was expired or exposed. Some bags of food were covered in bugs and roach feces.
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As horrifying as these conditions are, they pale in comparison to those suffered by the 400 victims in six dangerous, filthy facilities run by Scott Schuett in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. (Google Scott Schuett for more information.)
And yet Scott Schuett walks around today a free man, kvetching that he was persecuted.
I hope they get the stiffest penalty possible.
Loving Care? Isn't it something how they come up with names for their facilities which sound inviting, but then turn out to e be hell holes?
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