Nursing Home Fined $11,000 Over Assault

A Glendale nursing home last week was fined $11,000 by Los Angeles County officials after a nurse’s aide with a prior conviction for sexual assault allegedly raped an elderly resident who had Alzheimer’s disease.

The Department of Health Services levied a $10,000 fine last Thursday against Autumn Hills Convalescent Home because the resident allegedly suffered physical and sexual abuse. Home administrators have until July 26 to appeal the fine.

A $1,000 fine was also levied for failure to check the employee’s background. But that fine was dismissed Friday after the home’s administrators submitted to county officials a plan to improve employee screening.

Roy Alton Seaton, 45, of Burbank was arrested June 28 after a nursing supervisor allegedly caught him raping and sodomizing an 82-year-old woman. Police later told Autumn Hills officials that Seaton was convicted in 1983 of lewd conduct with a child.

He is in County Jail and will be arraigned Friday in Glendale Municipal Court on charges of sodomy, rape with a foreign object and sexual battery.