Home Care Takers Brutally dragged 71 year Old Patient from her bed | Brutal abuse Caught On Camera
Three care home workers who brutally abused an elderly Alzheimer’s sufferer have avoided jail sentences.
Joy Lewis, 71, who also has Parkinson’s disease, was dragged out of bed by her wrists and her pleas to use the toilet were ignored.
The diabetic was also refused food and drink and left sitting in urine despite her begging to be changed at Brookside House Care Home in NottinghamshireSickening stills from the video show the frail and frightened woman sobbing during the horrific ordeal.
A spy camera disguised as a clock was planted by Joy’s daughters after they became concerned about how she was being treated at the home.
The three carers involved — Rebecca King, 32, Teresa Cutts, 50 and Joanne Hardstaff, 39 — admitted charges of ill-treatment or neglect at Mansfield Magistrates Court.
They all received suspended sentences and community orders last monthNow Joy’s daughters are calling for CCTV to be compulsory in all care homes and for tougher sentences for this type of crime.
Joy’s eldest daughter Teresa Bestwisk, 47, told The Mirror: ‘We feel angry their sentences were suspended. They only pleaded guilty because it was all on tape.’
Youngest daughter Kelly Lewis, 34, confronted the carers at the home after her mother told her the staff didn’t like her and isolated her from other residents.
They assured Ms Lewis her mother was happy and just ‘confused’.But during later visits to the home, she noticed her mother’s condition had worsened. She was covered in bed sores and had bruises on her wrists.
Worried Ms Lewis bought an £85 clock camera on Amazon and set it up in her mother’s room, leaving it to record for two days.
When she and her sister Ms Bestwisk looked back over the footage they were left aghast.
They heard Rebecca King and Teresa Cutts verbally abusing and swearing at a male resident who had wet himself.
Later in the footage they saw their mother being woken up in the early hours of the morning, pulled out of bed by her wrists and dressed without being washed.
Her pleas to use the toilet were ignored and she was left for hours at a time without food and drink.
‘Anyone who can treat another person like that is a vile creature. Watching the footage, seeing mum crying, was heartbreaking,’ said Ms Lewis.
‘She was crying her eyes out, sobbing, begging for basic things, saying she was frightened of dying. No one at the home came to comfort her. It was terrible.’
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