Former nurse assistant sentenced to five years for patient abuse
By Jeff Lehr
A former nurse assistant was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for striking a brain-injured resident of a Carthage nursing home in the groin and face, and forcing water down his nose and into his lungs through his oxygen tubing.
Dennis A. Rowe, 39, of rural Carthage, was assessed the prison term by Circuit Judge Gayle Crane at a hearing in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin.
Rowe was convicted of second-degree elder abuse by a Jasper County jury in a single-day trial on June 11 that boiled down to the allegations of another former nurse assistant at the Carthage Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Abridged
SOURCE: The Joplin Globe
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