There's a legal way for someone to take your home, your stuff, and your money — but everyone ignores the two documents that can help keep you safe

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No matter how old you are, you need a power of attorney form on file.

• A bombshell report in the New Yorker detailed how one woman allegedly took control of strangers' financial and health decisions in Nevada.

 

• Experts say the case represents a nightmarish scenario that stemmed from a lack of judicial oversight.

 

• Two easily accessible legal forms — that don't require a lawyer to complete — can help prevent this type of abuse.

 

It could happen to anyone.

For 12 years, April Parks showed up at strangers' homes, court documents in hand, informing them they could no longer care for themselves, and that she would be taking over their financial and medical decision making.

Parks and her workers would identify these people through physicians' offices and rehabilitation centers, arrive unannounced, whisk them away, and take inventory of their possessions, according to a harrowing report from The New Yorker's Rachel Aviv. Parks is accused of selling their property, cars, and belongings, and transferring their cash to a bank account in her name. All the while billing them an hourly rate for her services.

But this alleged network wasn't comprised of burglars or kidnappers. Parks was a legal guardian, appointed by a judge to take care of over 400 people throughout her career, according to the New Yorker.

Now, she and three of her associates — her lawyer, husband, and business partner — have been indicted, facing a total of 270 counts on seven different felony charges.

Guardians are meant to make decisions for those who cannot care for themselves or their affairs, due to age, mental illness, or developmental disabilities. It's a role typically filled by family members or friends. But in rare instances when no one is available, or loved ones are deemed unfit, a court may appoint anyone who has completed the state's guardian qualification process, even if that person is a stranger.

In Parks' case, the scheme was allegedly carried out in such a way that the victims' relatives didn't know what was happening until it was too late.

 
April Parks, pictured, is accused of exploiting the people she was was supposed to be protecting.  
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It truly represents a worst case scenario, Jenny Flom, a New Jersey attorney at Cole Schotz who focuses on guardianship actions, told Business Insider.

"The whole system isn't totally corrupt," Pamela Teaster, the director of Virginia Tech's Center for Gerontology, told Business Insider. "There are pockets of corruption, and when there are pockets of corruption it's a total mess and it is totally unconscionable."

The nationwide system was far more fraught with abuse a few decades ago. The Associated Press helped expose the "ailing system" of guardianship in the 1980s, Teaster said. Today, she said the laws surrounding guardianship vary by state, but are "pretty darn good," generally speaking.

In New Jersey, where Flom practices, she said there are certain safeguards in place. A person's relatives are always contacted early in the process. The court also requires certifications — including a diagnosis and prognosis — from either two physicians or a physician and a licensed psychologist, as well as detailed documentation of the person's assets. If a guardian is ultimately appointed, all financial accounts are monitored to ensure no monetary impropriety takes place.

Still, Teaster said prudent guardianship — regardless of whether the guardian is a stranger or related to the person — requires monitoring, which involves "more time and more money than is presently devoted to it."

Simple documents — like a power of attorney form and healthcare directive — can help you retain control, even if you are no longer able to care for yourself.

"Nobody needs to not go to sleep at night or lock their doors or think the judiciary is going to, with its long, swooping arm, take you," Teaster said.

The best way to protect yourself from experiencing similar mistreatment or abuse, according to Flom, is to make sure your estate planning documents are complete — and that means more than just a will. "Make sure your power of attorney and your healthcare directive are completed," Flom said.

 
The Supreme Court of Nevada, the state where April Parks was operating. Wikimedia Commons
 
A power of attorney form is a legal document that gives one or more people access to your financial accounts and the ability to make decisions with your money when you can't. A health care directive does the same for medical decisions. Both forms, which vary by state, can be found for free online and completed without the help of an attorney — though having a lawyer review the forms can help ensure they are legally sound.

You can create your own power of attorney form with step-by-step instructions from LegalZoom, and make it official by having two people sign it as witnesses. Some states require the form to be notarized as well. AARP has free downloadable health care directive forms for each state. Keep a hard copy and a digital copy somewhere safe, and make sure your chosen caretaker knows where to find them.

It's especially crucial that you keep updating those two documents, to reflect changes over time. If your chosen caretaker is no longer willing or able, then you need to choose someone else and complete new forms.

According to AARP, more than half of Americans do not have have basic estate planning documents like a will or power of attorney in place. Among millennials, that number jumps to 78%.

If you haven't completed the documents, according to Flom, it could leave the court no choice. "If you need someone to make decisions for you at that point, you're stuck in probate court in New Jersey and there's a guardian being appointed over you."

Teaster said most guardians take on the role for the right reasons, but that more attention and resources should be devoted to the system in order to stamp out abuse.

"When it works well, people are safer," she said. "When it works badly, it's a draconian action that strips people of their rights with little due process and oversight."

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Conference raises awareness of elder abuse

Adult Protective Services held the 10th annual Crimes Against the Elderly Conference Sept. 26 at the Region 19 Education Service Center.

About 650 people attended the free event, which included experts who spoke on how to protect seniors and disabled adults, white-collar crimes that target the elderly, guardianship abuse and mental health.

APS presented the Community Partner Award to Margie Resendes with Texas 211. She was honored for her dedication and service to protecting a vulnerable population.

Founding board members Mitch Ayala, Susana Reza and Mary Yanez were each awarded the Legacy Award.

Last year, APS validated 1,973 victims of abuse, neglect and exploitation in the El Paso area. However, four of five incidents of elder abuse are never reported to the authorities, according to APS.

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Tonight on T. S. Radio with Marti Oakley: Abolishing Probate #3: Chris Forsyth & Judicial Integrity Project

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Abolishing Probate #3: Our guest will be Chris Forsyth of the Judicial Integrity Project.org

"In the state of Colorado the discipline commission dismisses 97% of complaints against judges. That’s because our Supreme Court writes the rules for the commission and the executive director of the commission reports to the Supreme Court. Bad judges have little to worry about in Colorado.

Although the American Bar Association and American Judicature Society recommend public judicial discipline proceedings, Colorado’s system is dark. 35 states have public judicial discipline proceedings because it creates public trust. But in Colorado it’s actually harder to obtain documents about a judge than any other public servant.

Why? Because the judges made their own rules about their records and the legislature let the judges get away with it.

There are other issues that need to be addressed in Colorado's judicial branch as well. From 'retired' unaccountable judges still serving on the bench to the judicial branch excepting itself from Colorado's Open Records Act, we have a lot of work to do to improve the system.

And that's not even mentioning our state court administrator's office that has an annual budget that exceeds 500 million dollars. It's run by an unelected official who's already misled the legislature to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars."

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Miami attorney disbarred following gross negligence allegations in guardianship cases

Miami attorney Angela Marie Abell, also known as Angela Hill, has been disbarred following a Aug. 24 Florida Supreme Court order following allegations of gross negligence in guardianship cases and misappropriation of client funds.

The state high court issued its two-page order of disciplinary revocation, tantamount to disbarment, with leave to seek readmission after five years. The Florida State Bar announced the discipline and the supreme court's order Sept. 27.

Abell was already suspended following a state high court order issued July 13, which made her disciplinary revocation effective immediately, according to the August high court order.

Abell also was ordered to pay $3,457 in costs, according the high court's order.

In Florida court orders are not final until after time to file a rehearing motion expires. Attorneys disbarred in the state may not reapply for admission for five years. Even then they must pass through an extensive process that includes a rigorous background check and retaking the bar exam.

Abell was admitted to the bar in Florida on Jan. 22, 1988, according to her profile at the state bar website. Abell had no other discipline before the state bar for at least 10 years, according to his profile.

On June 21, the state bar filed a petition for emergency suspension against Abell regarding allegations concerning seven minor guardianship cases and two probate cases, all connected, that she was handling in Florida's 20th Judicial Circuit, according to a petition filed July 11 with the state high court. All of the guardianship cases stemmed from an automobile accident that left the children, ages 3 months to 8 years, severely injured, according to the petition. All of the cases began in 1997 and all of the children came of age with some of the cases remaining open, according to the petition.

Abell failed to terminate the open guardianship proceedings or convert the guardianships into adult proceedings and she allegedly "exhibited gross negligence in the execution of her duties and responsibilities as guardian," the petition said. A bar audit revealed at least $7,123 of misappropriated client funds and about $134,831 "of unsubstantiated transfers" from the client trust account to her checking account, according to the petition.

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Making Encounters With Police Officers Safer for People With Disabilities

Rob Zink, an officer with the St. Paul Police Department in Minnesota

An Op-Ed essay last month about the fraught encounter between an Arizona teenager with autism, Connor Leibel, and a police officer inspired thoughtful comments, so we invited the author, Steve Silberman, to address a few in this follow-up. Comments have been edited for clarity and length.

Hen3ry in Westchester County, N.Y.: It’s not only police officers who need to understand how autistic people behave. Plenty of “normal” people should as well. What I’ve seen is this: People find young handicapped children adorable or great but once those children grow into tweens, teens and young adulthood they run from them. They also tend to react badly to developmentally handicapped adults and read various things into their behavior that aren’t there.

A. I agree completely. This is a problem for people with many types of disabilities, in part because fund-raising organizations have historically put cute kids front and center to tug at donors’ heartstrings, going all the way back to Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association featuring “Jerry’s kids.” Portraying disabled people as infantile, dependent and incapable of making their own decisions adds to stigma and fear, while sidelining the needs of disabled adults for suitable accommodations in employment, housing and health care in favor of an often elusive search for a cure.

Even profoundly disabled adults (including those often described in the press as “wheelchair-bound”) can take a very active role in public life, as evidenced by the bold protests mounted last week in Washington against the Republican Party’s proposed cuts to Medicaid by grass-roots groups like Adapt.

For decades, autism was defined by the psychiatric establishment as a form of childhood psychosis akin to schizophrenia, and teenagers and adults in this country were unlikely to receive a diagnosis of autism until the introduction of the concept of Asperger’s syndrome in the early 1990s.

Furthermore, for most of the 20th century, the recommended course of treatment for autism was lifelong institutionalization, largely because psychiatrists mistakenly believed that autism was caused by cold and unloving “refrigerator mothers.” Removing the child from the allegedly toxic family environment was considered therapeutic, while parents were told that they should quietly remove their son’s or daughter’s pictures from the family photo albums and “move on.” Thus the first two generations of children with autism diagnoses disappeared behind the walls of state-run institutions as they grew into adolescence and adulthood.

The fear-mongering messaging of parent-run advocacy organizations like Autism Speaks — such as a retracted 2009 video called “I Am Autism,” which featured images of children being stalked through playgrounds by a disembodied threat that works “faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer and diabetes combined” — hasn’t helped to frame autism as what it truly is for a vast majority of those affected: a chronic condition that requires accommodations and support for life. The relentless focus on children also skews research priorities worldwide, favoring studies that focus on kids while neglecting the needs of adults, which include learning how to advocate for themselves once their parents are no longer alive.

Fortunately, that’s starting to change in response to criticism from autistic-run groups like the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Women’s Network. In 2015, Autism Speaks appointed two autistic self-advocates to its board, which is a small step in the right direction. Autistic people should play prominent decision-making roles in any organization that claims to represent them.

From KidsDoc in New York: This article highlights the challenges special-needs people face daily. By no means do only autistic people face these difficulties. Imagine a hearing-impaired person not “responding” to an officer’s command. The real issue is not lack of training but lack of empathy and an overwhelming deference to law enforcement in this country. If you are a person of color and autistic, as many of my patients are, it is scary. The Americans With Disabilities Act mandates all kinds of accommodations, but it cannot mandate empathy.

A. You’re absolutely right that these problems are not limited to interactions between autistic people and the police. Last month in Oklahoma City, Madgiel Sanchez, a deaf Hispanic man who carried a short pipe that he used to communicate, was fatally shot by an officer outside his home as his young neighbor shouted, “Don’t kill him, he’s deaf.”

This killing is part of a larger pattern of law enforcement failing to uphold the mandates of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which requires the government to provide “effective communication,” “reasonable accommodation” and equal access to services for all disabled people. An online log of alleged incidents of discrimination by police officers, compiled by a nonprofit organization called Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf, contains troubling descriptions of officers intimidating, tackling, handcuffing and shooting deaf and hard-of-hearing people while failing to provide alternative means of communication, such as American Sign Language interpreters.

This situation is even more dire for disabled people of color. Starting in 2010, a black teenager with autism named Reginald Latson, convicted of assaulting a police officer, endured a hellish four-year journey through the criminal justice system in Virginia, including stints in solitary confinement. The county prosecutor who handled the case dismissed the relevance of his diagnosis, determined to prove that the teenager was motivated by “racial hate” and “hate for law enforcement.” (Mr. Latson was transferred to a secure treatment facility in Florida after being granted a conditional pardon by Gov. Terry McAuliffe in 2015.)

Cases like Mr. Latson’s are not isolated incidents but a systemic problem. Last February, a jury exonerated police officers of wrongdoing in the case of Tario Anderson, a black autistic man who was taking a walk on Christmas Eve in 2014 when officers responding to a report of gunshots in the neighborhood shocked him with a Taser and arrested him. “These are police officers,” Mr. Anderson’s mother, Carolyn, said after the verdict. “We don’t stand a chance, especially when you’re poor and black.”

You’re also right that laws like the A.D.A. can’t mandate empathy, and I agree that a pervasive lack of empathy for people with disabilities is one of the most serious challenges that we face as a society. The photographs of disabled activists being arrested last week for protesting potential cuts to Medicaid should shock the conscience and motivate our congressional representatives to develop a bipartisan approach to health care that doesn’t condemn disabled people to lives of misery and poverty. In a sense, however, it’s not the job of laws like the A.D.A. to mandate empathy. It’s their job to provide people with disabilities with the means to seek legal recourse when they are discriminated against. The A.D.A. is like any other civil-rights law in that way.

Jonathan Baker in New York City: It was harrowing watching the video of Connor Leibel’s encounter with the police officer because I was expecting the worst possible outcome. But the boy’s caretaker wisely defused the situation, carefully and politely explaining the boy’s medical condition. The policeman was receptive and willing to adjust to that reality. It was a misunderstanding.

A. I agree that Connor’s caretaker, Diane Craglow, handled a frightening situation with calm, grace, efficiency and good humor. One thing that struck me on reviewing the video was how many times Ms. Craglow said, “I’m sorry,” to Officer David Grossman, as if any of the events that had transpired were her or Connor’s fault. In fact, they’d done nothing wrong.

But I also don’t blame Officer Grossman for overreacting to Connor’s behavior. I blame the kind of institutionalized neglect that puts officers on the street without the training that would enable them to recognize one of the most common ways that people with autism soothe themselves in tense situations: “stimming,” the repetitive movements that Connor was making that made the officer suspicious.

Stimming and unusual movements are Autism 101, so to speak — they’re among the first behaviors you learn to recognize by observing people on the spectrum. Given how common autism is (1 in 68 schoolchildren are on the spectrum, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), this is like putting cops on the beat who are unable to tell the difference between a drunken driver and a driver navigating through an unfamiliar neighborhood. It’s not fair to the policemen, and it’s not fair to the disabled people they encounter.

These misunderstandings have serious consequences. The traumatic memories of this incident have had a lasting effect on Connor’s ability to feel secure in public, Ms. Craglow says. Connor has become fearful of men in general, and when Connor’s grandfather offered to shake his hand recently, the boy replied, “Will you hurt me?” Ms. Craglow also says that she can hear Connor verbally rehearsing the incident to himself, as autistic people often do, saying: “You pushed me into a tree. You shouldn’t have done that. That wasn’t nice.”

Thomas Zaslavsky in Binghamton, N.Y.: There’s a bigger question here, behind the autism question: Why are the police confrontational? Why do they, as described here, provoke intensification of difficult situations? Why are they seeking out signs of guilt or of incipient violence? Behind that, why are we training them that way? Why are we providing them with face masks, or armored cars with mounted machine guns? What happened to community policing, when the police are part of the community, not enemies?

A. I think you’re right that the militarization of local law enforcement — which has accelerated under the Trump administration — increases the temptation for the police to use excessive force, particularly when they confront the unknown. That’s why I believe programs to familiarize police with the challenges that people with disabilities face are so important. A new law in Florida that requires police departments to provide autism training for law enforcement officers took effect this week. Several programs are already in place to reduce the risk of interactions between law enforcement and people with disabilities escalating into traumatic incidents. One of the best is the National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability, run by the Arc, one of the oldest and largest disability-rights organizations in the United States. The center provides an extensive list of resources for local governments, law enforcement officers, lawyers and advocates for the disabled seeking to address this problem. “We get hundreds of calls a year about this,” said Sarah Suniti Bal, the public relations director of the Arc. “It’s a very serious problem that deserves much more media attention.”

Another resource available to law enforcement is the Ruttenberg Autism Center, which provides training on autism to police departments. The main challenge for the center, said its chief executive, David M. Maola, is “convincing departments that this is something in which they should invest.”

Training programs alone, however, may not be enough to enable disabled people and their families to feel safe in interactions with law enforcement. A disability-rights activist, Kerima Çevik, the mother of a nonspeaking teenager named Mustafa, proposes the establishment of a 911-type number dedicated to handling mental-health emergencies, with community crisis-response teams at the ready rather than police officers.

In my own thinking, I keep coming back to something that Ms. Craglow said to me in the wake of Officer Grossman’s interaction with Connor. “I had to try to calm the officer down,” she recalled. “Isn’t that his job?”

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She needs 24-hour nursing. Then she was told it would end

Bossier City resident Deshae Lott was 5 years old when she started having trouble walking — the first symptoms of a rare and serious disease that would mark her life.

By age 11, she could no longer climb stairs. By 17, she couldn't walk. And by age 31, she couldn't breathe on her own.

Lott’s diagnosis of Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy is rare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted the best research has been done in England, where two out of about every 100,000 people had some form of the disorder.

But Lott said her specific subtype, involving a rare recessive gene inheritance pattern, exists in only 13 known cases internationally, according to a conversation she had with a genetics counselor at Emory University's genetics lab in 2016.

Now 46, Lott is a red-headed woman with bright blue eyes, elfin features, a warm smile and gentle voice. She also is confined to a wheelchair and unable to breathe without a ventilator, which beats a metronome-like staccato heard throughout her quiet Bossier City home.  

Under a doctor’s directive, she requires 24-hour daily care from skilled nurses who can handle her medical needs, which include administering a minimum of four to six breathing treatments, operating coughing and lung suctioning machines at least six times daily, and doling out four to five different medications over every 24 hours.

Until recently, the majority of her care was provided by licensed practical nurses through a state-licensed home health agency and the state-funded New Opportunities Waiver program.

But in late August, Lott and her husband, Jeff Sadow, received a formal discharge letter in which the agency said it no longer could meet her needs. The couple spent several desperate weeks searching for other options, with Lott concerned that her services would stop and that she would die.

A glimmer of "true hope" came Thursday — four days before the scheduled end of Lott's services. A representative from the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities called to say that a new home health agency had committed verbally to taking Lott's case and to beginning services Tuesday.

Details hadn't been finalized, Lott said. But she hopes that sharing her story can help others in a similar situation throughout the state.

"The one comfort I have had during this process is that my case and any attention it receives could help bring about some needed constructive reforms," Lott said. "Lives depend on it."

While Lott’s medical condition puts her at the extreme end of those seeking home-based health care, she is not alone.

As of June, more than 30,000 elderly or disabled Louisianians were on a waiting list to receive Medicaid-funded, home-based services instead of through a nursing home, according to The Advocate.

And the waiting list for New Opportunities Waivers — through which Lott receives her services — runs to more than 15,800 people, said Louisiana Department of Health spokeswoman Samantha Hartmann.  (Click to Continue)

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2-year suspension upheld for former probate judge

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The suspension of a former York County probate judge's law license for two years for ethics violations will go into effect on Oct. 1.

The Maine State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it won't reconsider the suspension of attorney Robert Nadeau.

The court cited a series of ethical lapses and breaches of judicial conduct. Among other things, he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a client and trying to ban several lawyers from getting court-appointed work because of a personal vendetta.

The court Nadeau was unable to show he was treated more harshly than others having identified no other Maine lawyer "with a history of professional misconduct violations as extensive as his own."
Nadeau declined comment Friday afternoon.

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Arrest Warrant Details Abuse Of Whiting Patient

Mark Cusson, the supervisory forensic nurse on third shift at the maximum security Whiting psychiatric hospital, seemed to lead by example, with other workers either joining him as he rained abuse on a patient in the early morning hours, or watching mutely as it happened, according to warrants unsealed Wednesday in the widening abuse scandal.

Cusson, 49, of Southington, was observed on video kicking the patient repeatedly, dousing him with an unspecified liquid, straddling the patient in bed and placing his groin and then his butt on the patient’s face, the warrant states. Most of the time, the patient was in bed when the early morning abuse began, the arrest warrant states. Sometimes, Cusson would just roll into the room from the hall on his office chair or stride into the room and walk around the patient’s bed. When the patient sat up and began to watch Cusson, the head nurse would dart in a different direction and suddenly feint toward and away from the patient, causing the patient to follow his movements in apparent anticipation of another attack.

Cusson maintains his innocence and his lawyer, Brian Woolf of East Hartford, has said he and his client expect a favorable outcome of the criminal case.

The warrant affidavits for the nine staff members arrested in the case are each a little different — tailored by state police detectives to the maltreatment they observed in hours and hours of surveillance tape shot from a camera in the 62-year-old patient’s room. Allegations in the other warrants include workers placing a dirty diaper on the patient’s head and wrapping a sheet around his head and over his face.

Cusson was charged with eight counts of cruelty to persons, a felony — the most of the nine defendants charged in a scandal that has seen 31 workers suspended. Another three Whiting employees, including another forensic head nurse, were transferred from their jobs as new abuse allegations involving the same patient, surfacing in recent days, are investigated internally.

Writing in support of Cusson’s arrest, state police Det. Matthew Geddes said Whiting’s director of nursing, Renata Kozak, contacted police officers with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the agency overseeing Connecticut Valley Hospital and its Whiting Forensic Divsion, and said she had received a report from an agency employee “alleging abuse” against the patient.

Kozak, who herself has been suspended, told DMHAS police that she was “requesting the video recording from the patient’s room” in unit 6 at Whiting “be downloaded and saved onto a DVD disc for viewing,” the warrant states.

The warrant doesn’t answer a question asked by patient-rights advocates, the patient’s co-conservator, and critics of the way Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and DMHAS Commissioner Miriam Delphin-Rittmon have responded to the scandal:

Why didn’t one of the many layers of DMHAS and Whiting management catch the videotaped abuse while it was happening or soon after?

A recent investigation by the state Department of Public Health found that the video monitors and the tape-recordings were not routinely viewed, prompting Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, the co-chair of the legislature’s public health committee, to ask, among other things, how the state’s mental health system can have a surveillance setup and not use it.

After detailing episodes of Cusson allegedly kicking the patient in bed, or trapping the patient’s neck between his legs in a “scissor hold,” or putting his foot on the patient’s head and pushing down, the warrant describes one of the more jarring acts attributed to him:

“Cusson is seen entering the patient’s room, going straight to the patient, turning around and placing his buttocks very close to the patient’s face for several seconds. Cusson moves away from the patient for approximately a minute, then returns, mounts the patient’s bed and straddles himself over the patient, placing his groin in the patient’s face,” the warrant states.

“Cusson then makes a back and forth motion toward the patient’s face with his groin … Cusson gets off the patient, comes around the patient’s bed, and again bends over and places his buttocks in the patient’s face.”

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