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The Philadelphia Daily News had a news report of a amn who was allowed to take a resident out of a nursing home and rape her.  Yeadon police have charged a Northeast Philadelphia man with raping a dying 70-year-old nursing-home patient with Alzheimer's disease and a brain tumor. Doctors say she may have had less than six months to live.

Timothy Patrick White, 46, waived his preliminary hearing yesterday and was held for trial on 15 counts of rape and related charges. White took the victim from the Manor Care Nursing Home to a Southwest Philadelphia bar for rum-and-cokes, then to Cobbs Creek Park, where they drank beer until 5:30 a.m. on July 22.  When he drove the woman back to the nursing home, staffers noticed that White was "not wearing a shirt and his pants were unbuttoned," according to the affidavit for his arrest. They also found bruises on the victim's mouth, neck and arms, and discovered that she was not wearing any underwear. White told workers he was "a friend of hers," then drove away, police said. It was unclear how White was able to leave the home with the woman.

How did he have access to the resident?  How did the nursing home not notice that she was missing for all those hours?  This is disgraceful on the part of the nursing home.

A DNA sample taken from White matched semen recovered from the victim's anal cavity, according to police.

 

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Florida's FirstCoastNews wrote a story about a nursing home that took advantage of a resident by stealing her social security check.  A resident by the name of Crews entered Harts Harbor Health Care Center for short term rehabilitation.   Her son told the administrator he will pay for the stay.

Crews says, "I said if she stays over the 20 days that the government allows for free, I will pay every dime, it does, which is $128 per day." Crews said she stayed in the Nursing Home 27 days and he paid the facility a total of $1,528. 

The problem is this month when he went to pay her bills there was no money in his mom's account. Her Social Security check of $665, which is a direct deposit, was re-directed to the Harts Harbor Health Care Center, instead of going into her account.

"They took it from Wachovia, how they did it I don't know, cause I did not sign any papers," says Crews. Crews says when he contacted Harts Harbor he was met by a cavalier attitude.

The Social Security Administration is investigating Crews' complaint. But the Crews would like an explanation from the nursing home. "I'm telling you, they should not have had it in the first place," says Crews. And he wants a full refund. I'd like for them to refund her check and the bank fees, that's the bottom line," says Crews.

The nursing home refuses to explain how they got their greedy little hands on this little old lady's social security check.  I am so glad that her son figured out what happened.  How many residents get money stolen from them when family members aren't around to check on their finances.

 

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An Oregon newspaper ran a scary story about a woman caught on camera posing as nursing home employee.  It is incredible that none of the staff members realized that this woman did not belong.  How bad is the turnover rate at this nursing home for them not to recognize that this woman doesn't work there. Who are supervising the employees?  If this was a day care center full of cute babies, this would be a national story. 

A resident's family member was the one who discovered the intruder.   Surveillance cameras at Beaverton's Maryville Nursing Home caught a woman on camera posing as an employee. Now the nursing home wants to find her, to figure out why she snuck in, and why she spent at least three evenings with one of their residents.

That resident told her son, Jim Cole, about the incidents. "I thought, I'll come and hang out and see what happens," Jim said. He spent the evening with his mother, when he said the woman walked in. "Said, 'hi grandma,'" Jim said. "And my mom kinda looked back. [I said], 'who the heck are you?'"

Jim said the woman was wearing scrubs, and tried to explain that she was there to give the resident a massage. But when Jim asked for identification, he said the woman bolted. "I said, 'where's your nametag?' She looked down and said, 'I don't have a nametag.' She just darted out of the room so fast, by the time I got... down the hall, she was nowhere to be seen. I took off down the hall and came out here and she was nowhere. Nowhere around."

No one has idea what the woman was doing there or what she did to other residents for three nights

 

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There is a special place in hell for SOBs like Connie McCurry who steal from residents. 
The owner of a nursing home has been arrested after taking more than $60,000 intended for a resident in the home.   Connie McCurry was charged Tuesday with unlawful exploitation of a vulnerable adult.  (Is there such a thing as lawful exploitation?)

Police say McCurry cashed two Social Security checks, one worth about $41,000 and the other worth about $19,000, intended for a resident of Connie's Residential Home and kept the money.

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