Caregiver arrested for elderly abuse at Gainesville senior facility

By Alexus Goings 

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -Gainesville police arrested 24-year-old Daja Rutledge for elder abuse at Charter Senior Living on Southwest 62nd Boulevard on Monday.

Police say the victims were a 80-year-woman and a 82-year-old woman under the care of Rutledge.

One witness told police they saw Rutledge covering the nose and mouth of the 80-year-old resident with her hand after they heard the victim screaming.
 Rutledge told the witness that the elderly woman was yelling too loud.


Another witness said they walked in on Rutledge pinning the non verbal 82-year-old woman’s against a wall. According to the witness, Rutledge was upset the victim didn’t want to go to bed.

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, who is a resident in the area says she knew a resident of charter senior living and is disturbed by the allegations of abuse.


I had a neighbor who was in this place and I thought it was a good place,” said Simmons. “And I was very happy that he was there close to where his wife could just walk over and have meals with him. So, I’m terribly upset to hear this.

Rutledge denied physically harming the victims. 

The Charter Senior Living facility supervisor says the investigation is still pending and has no comment on the matter.

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1 dead, 2 critically injured after dishwashing liquid served at San Mateo senior living home

SAN MATEO, Calif. —

A resident of a San Francisco Bay Area senior citizens home died after being mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as drinking juice, the home said.

Two other residents at the Atria Park of San Mateo were sent to the hospital and are in critical condition, NBC Bay Area reported. The woman was also transported but later died.

"When this occurred, our staff immediately contacted authorities, and the residents were transported to the hospital for evaluation and treatment. We are conducting our own internal investigation and the employees involved have been suspended until this investigation concludes," the senior home said in a statement.

Other details weren't immediately released.

A woman who spoke with NBC Bay Area described the woman who died as a long-time San Mateo resident and mother of nine children.

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Las Vegas senior facility owner charged with abusing residents

By Sabrina Schnur

The owner and an employee of a Las Vegas senior facility were arrested on elderly abuse charges this month.

Ravette Taylor and Richard Cisneros, who were arrested Jan. 20, are each charged with seven counts of abuse of an older or vulnerable person, according to court records.

A certified nurse’s assistant who previously worked at “The Ohana Independent Living Home” called police Jan. 13 to report two elderly women were being sexually abused, beaten and overmedicated at the senior care facility, according to an arrest report from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police found eight residents, including a man suffering from Parkinson’s disease who was immobile, another man who was blind, deaf and suffering from dementia and six women suffering from advanced dementia. Taylor told police that neither she nor any employees had training in the medical field.

In her interview with police, Taylor, the owner, said she bought the home from a registered nurse in 2018.

She told police she didn’t get the property registered as a group home, which would allow her to care for patients with advanced needs, because the fire department told her that getting the home up to code would cost $16,000. Instead, she registered it as an independent living facility.

“She admitted she was aware the residents needed a high level of care and admitted her business was not providing the care required,” police said in the report.

“When asked she stated she had never presented herself as a medical professional to the social workers at the hospital but had never told the social workers that the prior owner was no longer associated with the business and that (Taylor) was not a medical professional,” the report continued.

Cisneros told police he was not familiar with caring for patients who are immobile and was unsure of how often to change their positions to prevent bedsores. He said he usually moved patients once at the beginning and end of his shift.

Police redacted the location of the home in the report, and the secretary of state’s business licensing department had no record of the facility.

Cisneros was released without bail, and Taylor was released after posting bail. The two are scheduled to appear in court again Feb. 22.

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