Fmr Employee Gets 5 Years Probation for Nursing Home Abuse
Published: August 24th, 2010 • No Comments
A Kentucky nursing home worker who was caught on video tape eating the food of a resident she was supposed to be feeding has been sentenced to five years of probation for committing nursing home abuse.
Amanda Sallee was sentenced last Thursday in a Madison County courtroom for her role in abusing Armeda Thomas, an Alzheimer’s patient at the Madison Manor Nursing Home. Sallee and two other workers were caught by a hidden camera abusing and mocking Thomas and eating her food instead of feeding it to her. The camera was placed in the room by Deborah Hamilton, Thomas’s granddaughter, who suspected the abuse.
Hamilton has also filed a civil nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuit and has started a foundation in her grandmother’s name, according to a story by Lex18.com.
Nursing home abuse can take many different forms, including physical, sexual or mental. It reduces quality of life for the victims and robs them of dignity, as well as possibly inflicting permanent and debilitating physical damage. Recognizing the signs of nursing home abuse can be difficult, and in many cases the victims are too humiliated to talk about what occurred. Signs of nursing home abuse can include:
- Unusual injuries or broken bones
- Unexplained loss of hair
- Changes in behavior of nursing home staff towards a resident, or residents toward one another.
