This article actually caught my eye because it occurred in upstate New York, which is exactly where I'm from, so I thought I'd read it. Four nursing home workers were fired for sexual humiliating two elderly patients at a nursing home. Two nursing assistants put a male patient who was legally blind and suffering from dementia in bed with a female patient with mild retardation and schizophrenia in a bed together, and tried to tell the man it was his wife, even though his wife was in the room. They then said provocative phrases to try to get the two to touch each other, then took cell phone pictures of the whole ordeal. The two assistants were fired, along with two employees who witnessed the act but said nothing to their supervisor. Both nursing assistants were fined $4000, and the witnesses fined $500. No one was criminally charged.
This absolutely disgusts me. I think it's horrible that the people who are hired aren't trustworthy, even after being interviewed. First of all, I think it was stupid of the nursing assistants. Did they think they wouldn't get caught? And what pleasure did they get out of the whole ordeal anyways? I can't imagine seeing that would entertain me one bit. And the nursing assistants obviously didn't realize that jobs aren't necessarily easy to come by these days. They were put out of "good standing," which stops them from being able to work at nursing homes. These nursing assistants had probably trained for positions at nursing homes, and now they won't be able to get any. Woops! But bottom line is, behavior like this is NOT okay.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110330/us_nm/us_abuse_elderly
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