Caregiver gets jail in beating
A former employee of an adult-care center was sentenced Monday to 90 days in jail for attacking a disabled man and recording the beating on his cellphone camera.
Patrick John Solis, 23, a former worker at Jossen Vocational Academy, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and felony false imprisonment of a dependent adult.
On April 12, 2006, Solis and co-worker Michael Douglas Rama made a 30-second cellphone video of themselves slapping a mentally disabled adult, who is seen wailing and trying to ward off the beating.
Rama, 25, has pleaded guilty to similar charges and awaits sentencing.
-- My-Thuan Tran
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