A Brooklyn nursing home will have to fork over nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left with more than 20 bedsores.
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This is a substantial verdict and the first time a plaintiff has been awarded punitive damages against a nursing home in New York state. [...]
Authorities in San Bernardino discovered 22 elderly and mentally ill people living in prison camp conditions at a group home. The ABC affiliate in San Bernardino covered the story. The woman who ran the home has been arrested. It is alarming that the neighbors who were interviewed for the story seemed to know what was [...]
The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
“A West Valley City couple are accused of bilking their elderly mother out of more than $100,000 while failing to care for the woman, who developed bedsores and other ailments as a result of the alleged neglect.
Corin Lynn Barker and his wife, Nadine Barker, both 60, were charged Tuesday in [...]
Julie and Jill Barry (pictured above) were found guilty of criminal neglect of an elderly person in the death of their mother Mary Virginia Barry. The charge is a Class 3 felony which carries a maximum sentence of five years. The sisters will be back in court for sentencing on October 9th.
Salt Lake County Utah prosecutors charged an Angie Dee Barker with elder abuse in the death of her grandmother Beatrice Barker. Listen to KLS News Radio reporter Ben Winslow’s Report.
A probable cause affidavit filed by West Valley City Police Detective Larry Marx alleges that when a search warrant was served on Barker’s home detectives [...]
Sisters Julie and Jill Barry will have to wait until August to learn their fate in the case of criminal elder neglect in the April 2007 death of their mother, 84-year-old Mary Virginia Barry. We first reported this story here.
Closing arguments wrapped up in June with their defense attorney describing them as “Heroic” and “Angels.” [...]
Bed sores, pressure sores or what are defined medically as decubitus ulcers, are common in elderly patients and can be life threatening if left untreated. Decubitus ulcers are caused by prolonged pressure on one area of the body. This pressure results in a lack of blood flow to the skin in that area, which can [...]
Dixie County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an Old Town, Florida home at the request of local EMS personnel. At the home of Jerry P. Holland and Donald K. Holland deputies and EMS found the Holland brother’s mother lying on the floor partially dressed with numerous sores and bruises. The home smelled of human feces and [...]
Mid-Michigan TV station ABC12 ran a story about the arrest of Flint resident Anthony Victor Cunturso for abusing his mother. The video includes shots from inside the mother’s apartment. You can see the video here.