Just turned on CNN's Nancy Grace show and Lawrence Carter-Long, a disability advocate, is on her panel discussing this case. Hidden cameras caught several caregivers beating a 50 year old resident with objects including a shoe and a wooden coat hanger.
"The helpless 50-year-old victim was battered repeatedly at the PLUS Group Home Inc. by at least four employees after one of their co-workers alerted police to possible mistreatment of the residents inside the Uniondale facility, police said.
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According to police, there were four separate assaults.
In the first incident, one of the suspects still at large was captured striking the victim in the head with her hand several times on Aug. 9. Three days later, the second wanted suspect kicked the woman in her buttocks, smashed her in the head with a wooden coat hanger and then threw the hanger at the woman's head.
That same day, health care aide Gedeon used a shoe to batter the victim, hitting her in the head. Djhon-Felix, another aide, used a handful of the woman's hair to shake her back and forth during the last incident Thursday.
Authorities said the victim can not speak or convey emotions or pain because of her disease, which is characterized by impaired social interaction."
I've linked to the article above from Newsday.
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