Abuse at Minnesota Nursing Home Makes Work "Fun" - UPDATE
We discussed the tragic abuse situation at the Good Samaritan nursing home in Albert Lea, Minnesota in our blogs of September 22, September 19, and
September 16, 2008. If you will recall, four teenage girls targeted residents suffering from Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or similar disease because "they don't have their minds". To "make work fun or to get a good laugh", the accused aides would close the curtain by the resident's bed to remain unseen and abuse the defenseless residents in a variety of ways, including spitting in a resident's mouth, groping of genitals, hitting and/or touching residents in the breast or genital area, sitting on the lap of a female resident in a wheelchair with bare buttocks, sticking fingers in mouths or noses to keep residents from screaming, and taunting them.
The teenagers will be charged within the next few days by Freeborn County Attorney Craig Nelson. The teenagers' names will be made public at that time. The Minnesota Attorney General, formerly involved in this case, will not be representing the Minnesota Department of Health in a civil appeals case tied to the Good Samaritan abuse allegation.
The teenagers have been disqualified from working at any licensed or unlicensed care facility in Minnesota. Three of the four suspects have challenged this ruling.
