Texas Nurse's Aide Beats Up Elderly Resident, Now Faces Felony Abuse Charges
Johnetta Phillips
Thirty year old Johnetta Phillips faces first degree felony abuse charges and is being held on $100,000 bail after a concerned husband caught her on videotape abusing his wife.
The man's wife, who remains unidentified, was paralyzed by a stroke several years ago and suffers from dementia. She has been a resident of Castle Pines Health and Rehabilitation in Lufkin, Texas for the past three years. Several months ago, she told her husband that she was being abused. The facility conducted an internal investigation, but it was closed after the resident could not identify her abuser. Still suspicious, the resident's husband set up a video camera in her room and caught two unprovoked attacks on his wife on tape.
In June 2009, Phillips allegedly forced the female resident out of her wheelchair and hit her three times on the arm before throwing her onto the bed with such force that the resident struck her head on the headboard.
In July 2009, Phillips allegedly picked up a doll the resident was holding and struck her with it in the chest. She then wheeled the woman to her bed and "roughly" put in her, once again causing her to strike her head on the headboard.
When confronted, Phillips denied touching the woman. When confronted with the video, she claimed she was protecting herself from being struck by the resident. According to Phillips, the elderly, paralyzed stroke victim with dementia had struck her several times in the past. Phillips' alleged reports were purportedly ignored.
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