Nursing Home Abusers gets Jail Time
Posted on Mar 25, 2010 4:55pm PDT
A former nursing home employee has been sentenced to jail for four months after hitting a patient around the face with an incontinence pad. The patient was in her bed, unclothed when two employees taunted her by hitting her around the face and body with an incontinence pad. The abuse wasn’t reported until two months after it occurred.
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