Massachusetts Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog

Police have charged several Teenage caregivers from a Minnesota Nursing Home of abusing, humiliating and sexually abusing elderly residents. Criminal complaints were filed alleging cruel behavior at the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in Albert Lea, Minnesota.

Nursing home residents were allegedly spat upon, spanked, sexually touched, and tormented by the young nurse aides earlier this year. The elder residents were described as vulnerable.

These incidents are unfortunately not uncommon. Our office is currently handling a Quincy Massachusetts case for a victim of similar degrading criminal elder abuse at the Quincy Atrium caused by a female nurse aid.

We successfully also represented several victims of abuse committed by Bernadette Stackpole at a Kindred Nursing Home committed in 2007 upon numerous elders. Stackpole was originally charged with sexual assault on some victims and plead guilty to assault and abuse of Elders, a distinct criminal offense in Massachusetts. Witnesses testified that Stackpole squeezed male residents testicles and verbally abused them during changing, bathing and dressing.

94-year-old Sophie Schwartz who was sexually assaulted at an elder-care facility, has been awarded s awarded $6 million in compensatory damages and $6.5 million in punitive damages for the 2007 attack.

The defendants are apparently still in denial. They apparantly felt that these were only elder emotional distress' damages and I guess in his opinion inconsequential. The Jury strongly rejected that notion. The Jury did not discount damages just because the victim had Alzheimer's either.

Allegation were made that the Oakdale Heights facility in Santa Clarita, CA was guilty of short staffing and improper supervision of employees, a common denominator in elder abuse cases.

Nursing Home Defendants apparently don't recognize the emotional damage that can be wreaked upon helpless elders just like in the Stackpole case, a Kindred employee who plead guilty of assaulting 4 elders who had Alzheimer's. An arbitrator's verdict in that case also upheld purely emotional distress damages.

news:http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/trial-procedure-jury-trial/14195385-1.html

The La Salle County Nursing Home has been slapped with an Elderly abuse lawsuit on behalf of an elderly dementia patient who was allegedly sexually abused. Multiple female residents, may have been assaulted and more Nursing Home Lawsuits are expected.

These Nursing Home Abuse allegations are not just filed against men. In 2007 Bernadette Stacckpole, a CNA at a Kindred Nursing Home in Massachusetts was convicted of Assault and Battery after a plea bargain in Massachusetts Superior Court. Kindred lost at least two abuse lawsuits after the resulting elder abuse claims were filed against them.

Elder sexual abuse unfortunately are not uncommon complaints. Recently in Florida, nursing home employee Robert Gundersen was convicted of sexual abuse at Ridgecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Deland, Florida according to news sources.