Cleveland, Ohio (WJW)-Starting Today New state lawRelatives of nursing home patients in Ohio are allowed to install surveillance cameras in their loved ones’ rooms.
The new law is the culmination of a decade of crusades by a Cleveland man who discovered that his mother was being abused in a nursing home.
The 78-year-old Esther Piskor was a loving patriarch of a large family, but when she began to suffer from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, they had no choice but to take care of her in a nursing home.
In 2012, she began to show signs of abuse, and her son decided to put a hidden camera in Esther’s room.
What the camera caught was shocking.
More than eight nursing assistants were captured in videos that regularly abuse Esther.
Her son Steve Piscol told FOX 8, “This video was horrifying for us, for me, and for my family. To this day, we still can’t get over it. It was. ”
All eight aides who abused Esther were fired and two were sent to prison.
Steve has decided that patients in other nursing homes should not receive such treatment. He launched a campaign to create a new state law that gives all Ohio families the right to put a camera in their loved one’s room.
“I don’t want people to put in a hidden camera and I need to see their loved ones being abused, you know, I want them to put in a camera and stop the abuse.” He said.
But over the next decade, Columbus lawmakers resisted Piscall’s request for cameras in nursing homes.
“You ask them all. They will tell you that I was annoying, you know, because I sent them hundreds of emails every month about abuse. Let’s get this law done and get it done, “he said.
He wasn’t surprised that the law gained momentum during a pandemic where many families left their loved ones in nursing homes and used different cameras to keep in touch.
Then, in 2021, a bill known as “Ester’s Law” was approved by the Ohio House of Representatives and the Senate in November. Governor Dewine During December.
The new law came into effect on Wednesday.
Steve reassuredly said, “When someone enters the room, they will know they are in the movie. They are on tape and are being watched.” ..
Esther died in 2018 at the age of 85. His son says his idea lies in the proud woman who influenced the Crusades for ten years.
“I think she’s happy about it. She’ll be even more happy that she has a camera to help stop what she’s experienced,” he said.
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