Abuse at Minnesota Nursing Home Makes Work "Fun" - UPDATE
We discussed the tragic abuse at the Good Samaritan nursing home in Albert Lea, Minnesota in previous blogs. Aides at the facility 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 abused residents by ranged from 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.
Now, one of the aides, Brianna Broitzman, is denying abusing any of the residents at the nursing home facility, although other statements differ. Those statements, obtained from other nursing assistants in an interview with the Minnesota Department of Health, confirm that Broitzman was verbally and mentally abusive to residents. Broitzman is asking a judge to rule statements made to investigators are inadmissible.
