March 3, 2009
A former caregiver accused of using a garden hose to clean a woman with Alzheimer's disease in the backyard of the family's Inverness home was sentenced to two years in prison today after pleading guilty to an abuse charge.
Stefania Lisowska, 52, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal abuse of an elderly person at a hearing in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County Circuit Court. A charge of aggravated battery to a senior citizen was dropped in exchange for the plea.
Lisowska was arrested in June, 2008, after neighbors saw her put a 60-year-old naked woman in a lawn chair in the backyard of the family's home in the 1900 block of Abbotsford Drive and turn a hose on her.
Lisowska also struck the woman in the face and body with the nozzle of the hose, said Assistant State's Atty. Sherie DeDore.
Police reported that the woman had bruises all over her body, including her face. The woman was taken to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital where she was released after an examination and treatment, said DeDore.
Through a Polish interpreter, Lisowska denied she hit the woman in the face but admitted to hosing her down.
"You're lucky the doctors indicated the victim was not seriously injured," said Judge Thomas Fecarotta Jr. "That would have made all the difference to this court."
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