Elderly man says son was drunk, abused him
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July 28, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.VA. -- Police arrested a Charleston man after his elderly father called his neighbors for help, saying that his son was drunk and abusing him.
Charleston Patrolman B.A. Lightner went to a Greendale Drive apartment Sunday after a woman called police on behalf of her 74-year-old neighbor, Paul Burdette.
Burdette told her that his son Mark Burdette, 52, was drunk and abusing him, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court. The woman told Lightner that there was no food in their home and that Paul Burdette was hungry.
The neighbor said she'd given the man food earlier Sunday and that she'd often given him food.
When Lightner went to the apartment, Paul Burdette told him that his son came home drunk about 2 a.m. Sunday and started to yell at him, the complaint said. He said his son lives in the apartment with him to take care of him, but is never around, according to the complaint.
Mark Burdette was charged with abuse or neglect of an elder person, a felony. He was taken to South Central Regional Jail.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail - Charleston
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