Milwaukee Elderly Sexual Abuse Attorney Shares Shocking Story
Woman sexually abused at nursing home for months
On behalf of Milwaukee personal injury attorney Ric Domnitz of Domnitz & Domnitz, S.C. posted in Nursing Home Abuse on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
Unfortunately, abuse at nursing homes can happen just about anywhere, the Milwaukee area included. Over in a neighboring state, a shocking cause of sexual abuse at a nursing home is making headlines.
A woman at the facility, whose age was not reported, was apparently sexually abused at the nursing home over a period of months. The woman apparently was not able to tend to her own bathroom needs, dress or bathe by herself.
The worker’s abuse apparently included fondling her breasts and forcing her to perform oral sex on him. The abuse went on for months, according to a Health Department report. The employee had also apparently been accused of “sexually inappropriate” behavior at other facilities previously.
For the latest abuse, the man was fired. Police apparently attempted to contact him, but the phone numbers he provided did not work.
When he had been confronted by staff members about the abuse, he claimed that the woman didn’t make sense and was under the impression that he would marry her. But other staff members claim the woman was “alert and oriented,” according to the Star Tribune.
In the earlier allegations of misconduct, the Health Department did not initiate further investigations and the nursing home was not held responsible for the alleged abuse.
As for the more recent case, prosecutors haven’t made a decision whether charges will be filed against the man. Officials with the local police department were checking to see where the investigation stood.
Source: Star Tribune, “Woman in St. Paul nursing home sexually abused over months, report says,” Paul Walsh, March 20, 2012
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