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6 arrested for greasing elderly at CA nursing home

Tue Aug 3, 2010 10:02 PM EDT
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Associated Press
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UKIAH — Six former Northern California nursing home employees are under arrest on charges they covered several elderly patients with cream to make them slippery as part of a prank against their co-workers.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced the arrests Tuesday, calling the alleged abuse "despicable behavior."

All of the patients at Valley View Skilled Nursing Facility in Ukiah suffered from dementia, Brown said, and were unable to object to their treatment.

The six employees have been fired. They face one misdemeanor count each of injury to elder or dependent adult; battery committed on elder or a dependent adult; conspiracy; and battery committed while on hospital property.

Bail has been set for $7,500 each.

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mstanley2265

despicable..guess they don't think they'll get old...what goes around, comes around

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Reply#1 - Tue Aug 3, 2010 10:51 PM EDT
cabootee

They got caught doing this, who knows what else they did to these helpless patients that we don't know about. It is scary especially when you see something on TV where CNA's go to houses to help patients and they are secretly taped by relatives hurting the patient in the most cruel way. I hope they all lose their papers to practices in the patient care field.

    Reply#2 - Wed Aug 4, 2010 12:57 AM EDT
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