Elder Abuse and Neglect: Couple Charged (NC. USA)

Grand Jury Indicts Several High-Profile Suspects
By Reece Murphy
Reporter 9/24/2008

The Harnett County Grand Jury has re-indicted a former Buies Creek couple charged with elder abuse in the death of his 78-year-old mother.

George Kaneklides, 56, and his wife Ann, 53, were both indicted last week on two counts each of domestic abuse of a disabled or elder adult. The additional indictments come as the state prepares for the couple's trial the week of Oct. 13.

The couple were previously indicted in October 2006 on one count each of abuse of an elder inflicting serious injury in connection with the alleged abuse of Mr. Kaneklides' mother Linda Arab Kaneklides.

According to prosecutors, the Kaneklideses allegedly neglected the elder Kaneklides so bad between Sept. 26, 2003, and Nov. 15, 2005, while she lived in their Keith Hills home, that she suffered serious mental and physical injuries that eventually led to her death at a hospital in Greensboro April 7, 2006.

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SOURCE: Dunn Daily Record
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