Carer slaps woman, 95, around head, laced Patientss tea with vinegar jailed

At last, at long last, a custodial sentence for one of these despicable sub-humans. I’ve never hated anyone in my life, I’ve never hit anyone in my life, but I’d like to tear this woman limb from limb. How do people like this live with themselves? How do they sleep at night? Why are so many of Britain’s care homes filled with so many people like her?

I know 9 months isn’t long, but it’s a start. Apparently she sobbed in the courtroom. I am ashamed to say that I am so happy about that, but, I’ll get over it real fast…

Heaney, who has worked in the care industry for 22 years, claimed she was the victim of a ‘witch hunt’ and continues to maintain her innocence.

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Ben Williams, defending, said: ‘Aside from occasional incidents she was genuinely a good carer and a kind and compassionate carer.’

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How can that be? I don’t care if she’s been in the care business 50 years; that 22 or 50 years doesn’t count for anything if there is just one slap. Just a single slap is a single slap too many imho. Its unacceptable, its unconscionable, it’s a disgrace to the profession. I hope she has to serve every single day of that short sentence.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022509/Southern-Cross-carer-laced-Alzheimers-sufferers-tea-vinegar-jailed-months-vile-abuse-elderly-patients.html#ixzz1UBTbxBiE

Some people just should not be working in the caring field. I worked with the mentally and physically handicapped for seven years and while there, I saw my fair share of abuse going on. It was disgusting. Which is part of the reason I got out of that job.

One incident in particular comes to mind. It was the morning of December 24th, Christmas Eve. One of the patients was having a minor outburst at 5am. The staff did not want him to wake the others so they dressed him up in his snowsuit and shoved him outside in the back yard to "cool off". This guy is blind, severely mentally challenged, epileptic...wears a helmet to protect his head when he has a seizure and falls....you get the picture.

Anyways, they put him out around 6am. When the dayshift staff comes in at 7am, he's still out there. They leave him out there till about 7:30am when they finally decide to bring him in. They go out to get him and discover that at some point in the hour and a half he was outside, he took his gloves off. BTW...it's -40 degrees celcius outside. When they bring him in, they notice his hands are a bit red.

Well, NO KIDDING!!! YOU FRIGIN IDIOTS!!! They left a blind severely challenged epileptic guy outside to stumble around in the snow at -40 without thinking once to go check on him in an hour and a half, what do you think is gonna happen. They took him in to the hospital where the doctor and nurses had to unthaw his frozen hands.

I came in for the 3-11 shift on Christmas eve and he was back home with hands bandaged up. I had to take him back in for a dressing change that eve. We sat at emerg all eve on Christmas eve and by the time they got around to changing his dressings, his fingers and thumbs on both hands had swollen to double their size. They were litterally like balloons on his hands.
The next day as he was walking around on my shift back at home, he had a seizure and fell hard landing on his hands. The blisters on both hands burst soaking right through the dressings and leaving a 3 ft in diameter pool of liquid puss on the ground. After we were done treating his seizure and cleaning up the mess from the burst blisters, I found myself back at the hospital with him. When they came to remove the bandages on one hand, I still remember to this day seeing the entire skin around one finger including fingernail slide right off like a glove. The nurse had to slide it back on before redressing it.

After several months and trips to see specialists with him, his fingers had mummified and it was decided that amputation was necessary. He lost 9 fingers in all. He managed to keep both thumbs and one index finger. This is a blind guy who uses his hands to feel his way around.

The 4 workers from the night shift and dayshift ended up loosing their jobs and received nothing more then a slap on the wrist for their actions.

I also witnessed allot of verbal abuse towards the patients and it disgusts me as now one of the worst staff when I worked there is a manager there now. At the time, I was almost powerless to say anything as when there's 63 employees and only three of us were males, that leaves 60 women running the show bossing us around. And at any given time during the month, at least 20 of them were on their......well...you know. And who takes the blunt end of the stick when that happens....common guys.....you know its us!

Happens way to often, even once is too many.

Nice post.

Lia said:

Why are so many of Britain’s care homes filled with so many people like her?

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Oh Laurie, the stories I could share with you of working in BUPA and NHS care homes.
I think Britain employ more troubled souls in those type of facilities than we do here in the states.

groomerguy, I weep with rage and frustration at your story which is all too familiar over here. What happened to that poor blind man must come under 'aggravated assault with intent.' I say that not because I know the law too well, but because these were people in the medical profession who must have been well aware of the consequences of their actions; and if they didn't know they should not the hell be in that profession.

As for the 'with intent,' well, they knew, without a doubt that this action would inflict terrible harm on this poor soul. The really frightening thing about this episode is that there were so many of them involved in the torture; not only the night staff, but the day staff also, for lets face it, the poor old man could not have irritated them, since they were not on duty when he was put outside.

I hope the relatives brought a class action against the institute and I hope they took them to the cleaners. Thats not a hospital, thats a hellhole. I applaud your not condoning the rest of the staffs unconscionable behaviour.

pirate_girl said:

Oh Laurie, the stories I could share with you of working in BUPA and NHS care homes.
I think Britain employ more troubled souls in those type of facilities than we do here in the states.

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Lollie, I'm sure that it must happen all over the world, and I'm equally sure that you, as a carer/nurse would never behave towards a patient with anything other than professionalism and compassion. But over here it seems to be every other week, and the stories get worse... It makes my blood boil to hear about someone so frail and/or mentally diminished being tortured by mindless morons, and especially those who should know better, and are in a profession that is supposed to care.

I know that I will have sleepless nights remembering groomerguys experiences as a nurse, and I can't be alone in my reactions to such horror stories; but what about the son or daughter, wife or sister, etc, who loved this man? What emotional wrecks they must have been to hear of what happened to their relative, may even still be affected by it (I know for sure I still would be).

What a sick, sick, sick world we inhabit... And what a sick, sick legal system that lets them off with a pat on the head!