AG's office starts training program on elder abuse
Recognition of types of harm and reporting emphasized
By IRA PORTER
The News Journal
April 3, 2009
In September, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden gave his staff a directive to alert, train and protect the elderly. Now it's coming to fruition.
"Child abuse and domestic violence was under-reported 25 years ago. The public needs to become aware of this with elderly people so there won't be a repeat," said Marsha J. White, deputy attorney general and head of the training program. White said the state doesn't know how many crimes are committed against seniors because they often go unreported.
The training comes on the heels of the arrest of 42-year-old New Castle resident, Bruce Stabley, who was charged with depleting $475,000 from a 90-year-old blind man's bank account to pay off his mortgage, install a new kitchen and roof and to purchase a car and motorcycle. Police said Stabley encouraged the man, whom he had befriended, to move his money from one bank to another. Money also came up missing from the victim's home in that case, police said.
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