Nursing Home Worker Guilty of Elder Abuse
A Yuba County jury has convicted a former Marysville nursing home worker of elder abuse for leaving a 98-year-old patient with Alzheimer’s disease outside the facility overnight. Debbie Montes, 25, could be sentenced to up to six months in jail.
Mildred Taylor died about a month after the morning she was found in her wheelchair on a patio. No one testified to seeing Montes push Taylor outside, but the jury found that Montes had lied about checking on all her patients before leaving work at 10 p.m. on June 26, 2004.
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