Elderly Nursing Home Patient Abused and Dragged Around Floor
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports that a nursing home employee has been convicted of endangering the welfare of an incompetent person when she reportedly threw an elderly person to the floor and began dragging her by her ankles around the floor. 53-year-old Elizabeth Peters will face sentencing on January 5th and she could potentially face up to a year in jail.
The incident occurred back in October when Peters reportedly threw an 86-year-old woman to the floor and left her there for roughly 20 minutes. After that time, she proceeded to drag the woman by the ankles and dragged her to the opposite side of the woman’s room. The elderly woman’s daughter later arrived at the facility and found the elderly woman on the floor. The report states Peters dragged the 86-year-old woman around on the floor a second time before the woman’s daughter arrived. The woman’s family had set up equipment to keep an eye on the woman’s safety and promptly reported the incident to the District Attorney’s office in New York.
It is bad enough when an elderly person falls on their own if they are unable to keep their balance and nursing home employees do not monitor them. However, when an employee deliberately abuses a patient, it is simply heartless. Nobody should face any form of abuse or mistreatment, especially being thrown to the floor and left there. This incident shows an extreme lack of disrespect and goes against the true purpose of nursing homes, which is to care for the safety and health of its residents. In cases of elder abuse like this, the victims and their family members deserve to have some form of justice for their suffering. There is no excuse for someone to commit such heartless acts against anybody, let alone an elderly person.
