Authorities in California say an 18-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of staging a nearly fatal attack on an elderly woman at her home on January 8. According to the San Francisco Examiner, police officers arrested Keonte Gathron on Saturday night, alleging that he was behind the assault and burglary of 88-year-old Yik Oi …
Authorities in California say a man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an elderly woman earlier this week. According to the New York Post, the brutal New Year’s Eve attack was reported in a San Francisco apartment complex at about 4 p.m. Police allege 26-year-old Teandre Howard-Kidd brutally attacked the 99-year-old victim at …
An 84-year-old man reportedly died at a Florida nursing home early last year after contracting gangrene in his genitals due to staff’s failure to bathe him. Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) inspection records obtained by the Naples Daily News stated that York Spratling, 84, was at housed at Consulate Health Care of Jacksonville and died …
A 14-year-old Maryland boy was charged as an adult in last month’s brutal rape and assault of an 83-year-old woman who died from her injuries a short time later. Per The Baltimore Sun, police found Dorothy Mae Neal unresponsive in her apartment on August 29 after a concerned neighbor requested a welfare check. Neal died …
California authorities say they are looking for a group of suspects they say beat a 92-year-old man with a brick and hurled racist insults at him. According to KTTV, Rodolfo Rodriguez was walking near his home in the Willowbrook community of Los Angeles on Wednesday when the alleged attack occurred. Reports indicate a woman approached …
A New Jersey woman suffering from congestive heart failure reportedly died seven hours after a utility company shut off her electricity because she was late on her bill. According to NJ.com, Linda Daniels, 68, was undergoing hospice care at her Newark home. Her family said Daniels depended on her oxygen machine to breathe—and it was at …
Correction: An earlier version of this story contained a booking photo distributed by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office that was incorrectly identified as Mya Janai Moss. In fact, the booking photo was of a different person and was not involved in the incident discussed in the story. Three Georgia assisted living employees were arrested after …
Authorities in Tennessee are hoping the public will help them arrest a suspect they say was caught on camera attacking an elderly woman outside of her church this week. According to WREG, the Nashville woman had just left Lebanon Road Church of Christ Tuesday when a nearby surveillance camera captured the mugging as it happened. …
A New Orleans woman who neglected her grandmother to the point that she died from a bedsore-related illness will be heading to prison. The Advocate reported that Lauren Looney, 21, will spend five years in prison for the September 2014 death of her grandmother, Bessie Looney, 82. Lauren Looney was 17 when Bessie Looney’s emaciated …
A California couple has reportedly confessed to torturing and murdering an elderly Vietnam veteran then burning his body. Stacie Mendoza, 38, and Jose Mendoza, 36, are accused of killing retired contractor Kenneth Coyle, 70, on April 5 or 6 at his Hanford home. Days later, police said the couple—with their three children in tow—got a …
A San Antonio, Texas, caretaker is facing felony charges for allegedly leaving a disabled elderly woman in her own urine and feces for months. Per WOAI, San Antonio police made the startling discovery in June 2014. In addition to being covered in human waste, police said the victim had a leg wound that was so …
Feces, bugs and trash were everywhere. That’s what first responders saw when they came to the home of an elderly woman whose daughter has now been accused of elder abuse, WOWK-TV reports. On Tuesday, police in Charleston, West Virginia, arrested 41-year-old Peggy Quesenberry and charged her with abusing and neglecting her 75-year-old mother. The victim is …
