Leathia Bonner, owner of Herlea’s Residential Care Group Home at 3334 Sheridan Road, and staff member Linda Ginn are charged with neglect of a disabled adult, according to the Florida Attorney General’s Office, whose Medicaid Fraud Control Unit led the investigation.
The unit began its investigation after receiving information from the Department of Children and Families about the facility. Bonner, 47, and Ginn, 59, are accused of failing to provide medical attention to a group home resident who was subsequently hospitalized and is recovering, the Attorney General’s Office said.
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Residential care home owner, employee arrested in neglect case
We're safer in our own homes with community services - if the guardians don't interfere.
ReplyDeleteIn Scott Schuett's six facilities with 400 people, one man was killed wheeling backward in his wheelchair across a six lane road at night.
ReplyDeleteOne diabetic resident died after workers dutifully recorded a huge spike in blood sugar, then sent the resident to bed instead of to the hospital.
One wandering resident was struck by a car and found in a roadside ditch.
Two other residents were struck by cars, but survived the experience.
A 92 year old lady was savagely beaten by a seriously mentally ill four-time felon.
Another elderly woman was pushed and shoved down by a psychotic woman, sustaining a broken arm and hip.
Scott Schuett responded to an inspections violation report by whining that it is well-known that you cannot stop mentally ill people from fighting. Scott Schuett claimed that he had no authority to keep wandering residents inside the building. He argued childishly over whether NINE dead smoke detector batteries in a single inspection at one facility was a serious violation.
The Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services and Jewish Family Service of Tidewater responded to public revelations that their public guardianship clients were in Scott Schuett's facility by claiming that it was impossible to operate such a facility without a single violation.
Scott Schuett did not have a single violation. He had more violations of assisted living facility regulations than any operator in Virginia history, ever.
And Scott Schuett is still walking around a free man. He wasn't arrested. He wasn't even questioned by law enforcement authorities. Until outside parties and bad publicity brought his deadly practices to a halt, the Commonwealth's government agencies and government officials were paying Scott Schuett enormous sums of public money, strategizing with Scott Schuett, cavorting and spooning with Scott Schuett.
Scott Schuett still has a LAW LICENSE! And the attorneys from the Virginia Attorney General's Office who dallied and dithered in shutting down his hellholes, who fretted about fairness to "Mr. Schuett," who hid public information about Scott Schuett from the public, who attacked critics of Scott Schuett with vicious character assassination and outrageous defamation, who skirted and even violated the law on behalf of this well-known monster, could not even bother to perform their clear duty as attorneys and REPORT HIM TO THE BAR!!!
Shameful.
The owners should be held responsible.
ReplyDeleteScott Schuett should have been disbarred and then run out of the state. Of course, I wouldn't want him in my state either!
ReplyDeleteThat's my biggest fear, StandUp.
ReplyDeleteScott Schuett has a Michigan law license. So when he's through with his bankruptcy and the buildings that housed these horrible facilities are gone, he could move back home to Michigan, pay his Bar dues, and call himself an elder law attorney.
And no one could stop him, because Virginia officials including the Attorney General's Office were too lazy or in cahoots to take the few steps necessary to yank his law license, much less press criminal charges as they should have.
It reminds me of the bad old days when public agencies like schools and even churches used to pass sex offenders around. "Okay, you're fired from this job, but we'll pretend that you quit and give you a recommendation so you can go prey on some more victims elsewhere."
Shameful.