CHILLICOTHE - A Laurelville woman has pleaded guilty to abusing one of her patients in March at a Chillicothe nursing home.
Kali
Jo Craiglow, of 26834 Tarlton-Adelphi Road in Laurelville, pleaded
guilty Friday to a single count of patient abuse, a fourth-degree
felony. The prosecution requested a 14-month sentence and asked the
judge to consider victim impact statements.
Reports on
the incident stated the 85-year-old female victim was found with
injuries and tears to her clothing, as well as with a bloody pillowcase
on the floor of her room, on March 12 at Westmoreland Place after
Craiglow, who was a state tested nursing assistant, had been in her
room. The Chillicothe police report noted Craiglow had claimed the
victim had been belligerent toward her and calling her names.
Officials
at Westmoreland Place told investigators the STNA should not have been
alone with the resident and was fired the same day. Within days of the
incident, Craiglow was jailed in Pickaway County on charges in an
unrelated incident.
In
an inspection report by the Department of Health and Human Services and
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Medicare's website,
investigators found Westmoreland Place "failed to ensure residents were
protected from physical abuse resulting in actual harm by facility staff
during the provision of direct care by a State Tested Nurse Aide
(STNA)." Two of three residents questioned reported being abused by the
same STNA.
While names were redacted in the report,
details are consistent with the details from the Chillicothe police
investigation, which was done in conjunction with the Ohio Attorney
General's Office.
Craiglow, who was indicted by a Ross
County grand jury in September, is serving time in a community-based
correctional facility on a burglary conviction out of Pickaway County.
She is set to be sentenced in the Ross County case at 1 p.m. Feb. 6.
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2 comments:
I think this woman should have been charged with attempted murder.
I am so glad to read that she was prosecuteed. Too many are let off too easily. Yes, attempted murder is a more accurate charge.
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