Portage Police said the owner of Aina Acres AFC LLC. assaulted a 71 year old resident Mar. 29 (WWMT/Manny Revilla)
PORTAGE, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs suspended the license of a Portage adult foster care facility after police said a neighbor witnessed the facility's owner abusing a resident.
Portage Department of Public Safety Senior Deputy Chief John Blue said a neighbor captured cell phone video of the March 19, 2021, incident at Aina Acres AFC LLC., on Mount Vernon Avenue that led detectives to an arrest. People who had seen the video said it was shocking.
Blue said the owner, Adebiyi Aina, was arrested.
State investigators said Adebiyi Aina 'forcefully' pulled a 71 year old foster care resident into his wheelchair in a 'violent manner' While wheeling the patient, he applied three knee strikes to the back of the man's wheelchair and struck him in the back of the head.@wwmtnews pic.twitter.com/M7Ycn8UsTL
— Mike KrafcikTV (@Mkrafcik) March 29, 2021
Aina said he did nothing wrong.
"The truth is going to come out. You can’t attribute anything to the injuries," Aina said.
State investigators said on March 19, a neighbor spotted Aina forcefully pulling a 71-year-old foster care resident out of his van and into this wheelchair in a violent manner.
As he pushed the resident in his wheelchair to the front entrance, investigators said Aina hit him three times on his back with his knee while he sat in the wheelchair and then hit him in the back of the head.
The report indicated each time he was struck, the resident yelled, "ouch" or "stop it."
"I was trying to get him out the van, it wasn’t anything malicious and I was trying to get him in the house as quickly and safely as possible," Aina said.
"I was trying to get him out the van, it wasn’t anything malicious and I was trying to get him in the house as quickly and safely as possible," Aina told us when we encountered him outside the Portage adult foster care facility.@wwmtnews pic.twitter.com/tLejXDBubF
— Mike KrafcikTV (@Mkrafcik) March 29, 2021
Blue said the elderly resident was taken to the hospital hours after police responded.
He said the man was eventually released but investigators were trying to determine if the man's injuries resulted from underlining medical issues.
Investigators said the man was treated for a golf-ball size lump on his forehead and had a mark and bruise on the left side of his face.
Blue said prosecutors were waiting on additional medical records to determine how the caretaker would be charged.
"We were either looking at a domestic violence standpoint or from the vulnerable adult standpoint," Blue said.
Aina Acres AFC Summary Suspension by WWMT on Scribd
Sally Pung, director of Michigan's Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Program,
said all too often most abuse cases in adult foster care homes don't get
reported.
The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, or LARA, suspended the facility's license on March 26.
LARA said the suspension was an emergency action taken to protect residents' health and safety. The agency said the facility violated the Adult Foster Care Facility Licensing Act, as well as rules related to mistreatment and physical abuse of a resident.
The facility was prohibited from operating due to the suspension, and could not accept new residents.
The facility, which opened in 2010, was licensed to house up to five residents. LARA records showed the facility was determined to be in compliance with its adult foster care license, according to a October 2020 licensing study report.
David Harns, spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Regulatory Affairs, said Aina AFC LLC was the first adult foster care facility to have its license suspended in Michigan in 2021.
Harns said three adult foster care facilities had their licenses suspended in 2020. Harns said the agency didn't track, which suspensions were as a result of abuse allegations.
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