Nursing home employee steals resident's identity

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Ray Mullman

WLKY.com had an article about the Louisville Metro Police's investigation of a nursing home employee who stole the identity of a patient, then turned around and took out nearly $100,000 in loans.  Danielle McClain faces at least a dozen counts of aggravated identity theft.  McClain was an occupational therapist at the Hurstbourne Care Center at Stony Brook.  She stole 85-year-old Jean Wright's personal information.  Wright spent six weeks at the facility after bypass surgery on her leg.

The investigation determined McClain had stolen Wright's information off her driver's license and from conversations the two had in the facility.  Records show McClain listed Wright as her grandmother on loan applications.  If convicted, McClain could face at least 20 years behind bars.

Records show McClain was convicted of forgery, theft, and criminal possession of a forged instrument in September 2000 and sentenced to 6 years in prison. Those records show she was released from prison in October 2007.  There is no explanation how she got hired at the nursing home.  It is doubtful the facility did any criminal background check.  If the facility had done an appropriate and required background check, this incident never would have happened.

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