Green Bay man charged in Sheboygan nursing home abuse; coworker says he punched resident

SHEBOYGAN - A Green Bay man was charged Monday with four felonies related to two July 7 incidents in which a coworker said he assaulted a resident in the Sheboygan nursing home where he worked.

David Stephen Boozer, 66, was charged with two counts of intentionally subjecting an individual at risk to abuse and two counts of aggravated battery to the elderly.

According to court documents, a coworker assigned to a floor for patients with dementia and Alzheimer's said she saw Boozer use violence to get a patient back to his room, including punching the patient in the chest. After Boozer pushed the patient back to his room in a wheelchair, she found the patient on the floor and the wheelchair tipped over, she told police.

David Stephen Boozer
(Photo: Sheboygan County
 Sheriff's Department)

A little while later, the coworker said Boozer rammed a wheelchair into the same patient's legs. When the patient tried to enter another patient's room, Boozer dragged him to the floor and out of the room by the shirt, court documents said.

According to court documents, the coworker estimated that she had worked with Boozer about 20 times in the past. She previously reported him to the nursing home's administration for negligence, she told police, including for one instance where she said he refused to provide needed medications to dying patients.

A cash bond of $50,000 was set and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 17.

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