>One family says their loved one spent nearly a decade in an abusive home.
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>Allegations of Elder Abuse
June 8, 2011>YouTube: NJ Guardian and Three Lawyers Admit Elderly Financial Abuse
June 4, 2011>Guardian Vanessa D. Taylor, attorneys James Boutillier, Lawrence N. Meyerson, and Shawnda Floyd admit elderly financial abuse based on their failure to respond to an order to show cause and complaint filed in Essex County Probate Court.
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May 31, 2011
>Alleged Guardian Theft
May 20, 2011>An Appleton man hired by Outagamie County to protect the legal interests of elderly and disabled residents is charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from their accounts.
Affected families say the alleged crimes are devastating.
Jeffrey Schend, 44, faces six felony counts of theft in Outagamie County.
He’s worked as a contracted legal guardian for the county since 2004, and late last year his business, JMS Guardianship Services, began receiving calls that clients’ bills weren’t being paid.
According to the criminal complaint, prosecutors examined accounts of four people under Schend’s care, and they discovered about $400,000 transferred to Schend’s company could not be found in the company’s books.
The family of one of the alleged victims in this case says they are appalled by the allegations.
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>’Isolate, Medicate, Steal the Estate’
May 19, 2011>Nursing Home for Criminals Concerns Neighbors
May 16, 2011>
Most of us probably think of a nursing home as a place for elderly loved ones to get the care and help they need…not a haven for criminals sponging off taxpayers. But that’s what FOX 4’s Becky Oliver found in a community outside of Fort Worth.
It’s a serene, tidy little neighborhood on the shores of Lake Worth with parks, lakefront homes, and cottages where families have lived for decades. But there’s a cancer in the midst of the tranquility.
“My family has lived here since 1935 and it feels like we’re in jail, you know, because of these people,” said Kerry Gallagher.
There are about 50 of “these people” at the Lake Worth Nursing Home…registered sex offenders, convicted felons, and prison parolees, some labeled violent offenders by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).
But these are not your typical nursing home patients confined to a wheelchair or bed.
“Sick, old people are fine in there, you know. Not these young 30 or 40 year old sex offenders down there. That’s ridiculous,” said Mary Cecil, who lives just down the street from the nursing home.
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>CBS Report: Gov’t Finds Nursing Homes Misuse Anti-Psychotics
May 11, 2011>Anyone who’s ever been through it will tell you that putting a loved one in a nursing home is one of the toughest decisions you’ll ever have to make. You hope and pray your relative will be well-cared for.
But a troubling new report from the government finds that, all too often, nursing homes are giving antipsychotic drugs to patients who should not be getting them
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>Once Pride of Florida; Now Scenes of Neglect
May 2, 2011>
A Miami Herald investigation of Florida’s assisted-living facilities found that safeguards once hailed as the nation’s best have been ignored in a spate of tragedies never before revealed to the public.
For more than a decade, Bruce Hall ran his assisted-living facility in Florida’s Panhandle like a prison camp.
He punished his disabled residents by refusing to give them food and drugs. He threatened them with a stick. He doped them with powerful tranquilizers, and when they broke his rules, he beat them — sending at least one to the hospital.
“The conditions in the facility are not fit even for a dog,” one caller told state agents.
When Florida regulators confronted Hall in 2004 over a litany of abuses at his facility in the rolling hills of Washington County, they said he chased them from the premises while railing against government intrusion.
Under state law, regulators could have shut down Sunshine Acres Loving Care or suspended the home’s license, but they did neither. Instead, they ordered the 50-year-old Hall to see a therapist for his anger and to promise not to use “any weapon or object” on his residents — allowing him to keep his doors open for five more years.
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>TN Woman’s Adult Daughter Taken From Her
April 25, 2011>
Venders of the homeless newspaper The Contributor are on street corners all across Nashville but something seemed to stand out about the woman who’s usually on Franklin Road in Brentwood.
That woman is usually seen selling those papers with her daughter who suffers from Downs Syndrome.
In January, a concerned group lead by Belinda Mitchell went to court to take Lisa Arnold away from her mother.
Jad Duncan is representing them.
“She’s safe in a house getting 3 meals a day. She’s off the streets,” said Duncan.
Among the allegations against Renata Arnold, using her daughter to get donations, encouraging her to kiss men and panhandling with her in cold temperatures.
“This is not something that was just a fly by night decision in which one particular individual decided they were gonna up and remove a child from her home. There’s lots of circumstances that occurred prior to this,” said Duncan.
Duncan says the group wants to return Lisa to her mother but only if her living situation improves.
He believes that’s happening and it may be one reason why Judge Randy Kennedy granted Arnold more visitation rights Wednesday.
The fact that she even has to fight for those rights is something Lucas says is wrong.
“I believe that Renaa is a victim in this situation,” said Lucas.
The final decision of who get’s authority over Lisa Arnold will likely come here at a hearing June 8th.
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