California Nursing Home Workers Arrested For Prank
According to a report posted by the Associated Press, six California nursing home workers have been arrested after attempting to play a prank on their co-workers. The workers covered many of the nursing home residents with cream in order for them to slip when other workers attempted to help them in any way.
The report states that all the patients suffered from dementia and were unable to defend themselves. All six workers were fired from the nursing home and face several charges against them including injury to elder or dependent adult, battery committed while on hospital property and conspiracy among other charges. The report states that bail for all six former nursing home workers has been set at $7,500.
It is one thing to pull a good-natured prank or joke on a friend or co-worker but it is an entirely different thing to physically abuse another individual in the process. The nursing home residents in this incident may not have suffered any physical injuries but this incident could have been much worse. The residents could have been seriously injured, especially when they were covered with a slippery substance, which could have caused the workers to drop them. The fact that all the residents suffered from dementia makes this incident even worse because they were defenseless and could not protect themselves in any way. Nobody should ever be a victim of this sort of abuse, especially when the nursing home workers act completely unprofessionally and use the residents to prank other co-workers.
