Six California Nursing Home Workers Face Criminal Charges for "Prank"
Six former employees of Valley View Skilled Nursing facility were arrested last week and charged with one misdemeanor count of causing injury to an elder or dependent adult, battery committed on an elder or dependent adult, conspiracy, and battery committed while on hospital property for their roles in a vicious "prank".
The employees reportedly coated seven dementia residents at the facility from head to toe with ointment so that they would be "slippery" for employees on another shift. Four of the former employees applied the ointment and two failed to report the abuse.
Since the incident, the facility's executive director has been replaced.
Sadly, we hear about nursing home residents being the object of pranks, assaults and neglect far too often. We work hard at making a difference in cases of Missouri and Illinois nursing home abuse and neglect. There is no room for this kind of disrespect in nursing homes.
