Crown pushes for jail time over veterans’ assaults
Caregiver admitted to mistreatment of elderly patients, co-workers
BY ANDREW SEYMOUR,
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Angry family members of sick and elderly war veterans victimized by one of their caregivers at an Ottawa long-term care home took turns telling a judge Monday about the pain they felt knowing the suffering and humiliation their loved ones endured in the final years of their lives.
“I can’t fathom how someone could victimize a person who was so completely helpless; who couldn’t move, eat or speak out for themselves,” said Kathryn Brownlie, whose father, Arthur Kinchen, was one of four patients at the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre who Allan Foubert pleaded guilty to assaulting earlier this year. Foubert also admitted to assaulting three co-workers.
Kinchen, who died 18 months ago, was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease when Foubert kneeled on the 85-year-old’s hands until they were bruised and bloodied after he refused to get out of his wheelchair.
Abridged
SOURCE: The Ottawa Sun
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