Ex-Employee Charged in Abuse and Torture of Nursing Home Residents
An article in The Oklahoman online reported that a former caregiver at a Los Angeles-based nursing home facility was sentenced to life for allegedly beating one nursing home resident to death and abusing many other elderly residents.
Witnesses claimed that the worker body-slammed a 78-year-old mute woman and attacked an elderly man in which the ex-employee crashed his knees into the man’s stomach. In addition, the former caregiver had made sexually explicit comments about the daughter of one of the patients. The widow of one of the former patients who was killed discovered that blunt force trauma and abuse caused her husband to suffer many broken bones and a head injury that eventually killed him.
While employed by the California retirement facility, the ex-caregiver held the responsibility of bathing the nursing home residents and escorting them around the nursing facility. Families paid $70,000 or more each year to leave their relatives under the care of the nursing home facility, which also once awarded the alleged abusive caregiver the employee of the month award.
Although the nursing home facility fired the former caregiver for reasons apart from his arrest for the elder torture and abuse charges, the nursing home denies wrongdoing in the deaths and abuse of the elderly patients.
Our Oklahoma City nursing home abuse attorneys handle numerous nursing home facility neglect cases as well as cases involving wrongful death attributed to elder abuse. The attorneys at Maples Law Firm provide highly skilled, competent legal representation in nursing home neglect and abuse cases to prevent the vulnerabilities of the elderly from being exploited by negligent nursing home employees. If you or a loved one has suffered harm while staying in a nursing home, contact our nursing home neglect and abuse attorneys for a free legal consultation at (405) 705-5050. We can help.