DA: Nanny cam shows elder abuse at Pa. facility (AP)
Thursday, April 7, 2011 4:01 PM By dwi
PHILADELPHIA – Aides at an aided living artefact abused and mocked a half-naked dementedness enduring as the old blackamoor struggled to scarper her shack and carelessness the torment, according to video grounds captured by a unseeable camera in the room.
The woman's family had left a measure containing the unseeable camera in the woman's shack after officials at the Quadrangle Assisted Living Facility in suburban Philadelphia unemployed their complaints, instead pointing to the victim's dementia, polity said Thursday.
"Why do they keep production on me?" the distressed 78-year-old blackamoor had asked her family, according to personnel documents.
Samirah Traynham, 22, Tyrina Griffin, 21, and Ayesha Muhammad, 19, were charged with aggravated assault, miss of a care-dependent mortal and attendant charges for the alleged verbal and physical attack on the patient.
Traynham struck the blackamoor in the face and nous as the blackamoor struggled to put her shirt on, and shoved her in her bed, the personnel affidavit states. Griffin "shadow boxed" with the enduring and danced to a bottom place in a behavior that the woman's relative likened to a stripper's tangency dance, the affidavit said. Muhammad admitted to personnel that she and her co-defendants closed the enduring from leaving her shack individual nowadays but denied having some physical occurrence with her, the affidavit states.
"Seniors are whatever of the most undefendable members of our community, especially seniors suffering from mental diseases, such as Alzheimer's and dementia," said Assistant District Attorney archangel Mattson. "It's a rattling big concern."
It was not country if some of the women had lawyers.
Traynham is free on bail, and a communication for her was not directly returned. Muhammad also did not return messages.
Griffin told reporters that some mistreatment "wasn't intentional."
The woman's daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Paul French, installed the unseeable camera and went to personnel with their grounds after the victim complained to them of mistreatment, and their concerns were rebuffed by administrators at the Haverford facility, polity said. The pair also photographed unexplained bruises they found on the woman's mother, personnel said.
Sunrise Senior Living Inc. of McLean, Va., operates the artefact and more than 300 others in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. The company issued a evidence saying it took the allegations earnestly and was cooperating with police.
"Our No. 1 concern, above every else, is the country of our residents. We hit a sort of policies and procedures in place that come their goodness and are witting to preclude some inappropriate state in our community," the company said.
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