By MEGAN GILLIS, Sun Media
The Ottawa Sun
November 19, 2009
Susan Davies, the daughter of the only surviving victim of Foubert's abuse, had to listen to her father beg not to be hurt. (Sun Media)
Family members literally applauded a judge’s sentence of eight months for a caregiver who admitted to assaulting four vulnerable veterans — all in their 80s and 90s with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia — at the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre.
Judge Colin McKinnon said the house arrest Allan Foubert sought wouldn’t send a strong enough message to caregivers who might do the same thing to people as defenceless as babies.
Elder abuse is a growing problem as more and more aging Canadians find themselves in nursing homes, he said.
Police were called when residents Foubert fed, bathed and toileted had a pattern of unexplained bruising. The bruises followed Foubert as he moved from wing to wing.
Foubert admitted to three other assaults on seniors in 2006 and 2007.
In one case, he kneed an 85-year-old’s hand until it bled because he was clinging to his wheelchair.
In another, a “red-faced, angry” Foubert picked up a 92-year-old resident, whose buttocks were soiled and pants down, by one leg and one arm and threw him onto a bed.
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SOURCE: Cnews Canoe.Ca
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