New York Nurse's Aide Guilty of Tying Up Nursing Home Resident
A nurse aide at the Waterview Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Home in New York has pleaded guilty to tying a resident to her wheelchair with a bedsheet while he napped.
Pierre Obas, 72, pleaded guilty to violating public health law involving abuse, neglect, and mistreatment of a person in the May 16, 2008 incident. Obas has to surrender his nurse aide certificate and is forbidden to work as a nurse aide for one year.
The nursing home resident, who was 83 years-old and unable to walk or care for herself without assistance, requested assistance several times during the night of May 16, 2008. According to video surveillance, around 2:30 a.m., Obas tied her to her wheelchair, took her to a darkened common room, and napped while she sat, bound, in the wheelchair for approximately an hour.
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