Elder Law

Nurse?s Aide Enters Plea to Abuse Charge

By Levin & Perconti

A 27-year-old nurse?s aide charged with abusing elderly couple has entered a plea of no contest. The man pled no contest but mentally ill to first-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult, which is a 15-year-old felony. A second count of the same charge had been dismissed as part of a pretrial settlement. The nurse?s aide had initially been charged with two felony counts stemming from a 2008 incident involving the elderly couple, both of them being 81 years old at the time. According the police, the man was at his usual shift and threw food all over the kitchen. When he came back the next morning to clean up the mess, he allegedly went into the living room and urinated on the head of the man?s wife. Unfortunately the woman is physically unable to care for herself. The man also allegedly poured liquid soap over the man?s head and threw soap around. After the man was charged it was determined that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial. It is unfortunate when mentally incompetent people are employees at nursing homes. To read more about the nursing home abuse, please click the link.

Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).