Aug 12, 2009
By Antwan Harris
Dalton veterans we spoke with say they were disgusted to hear a 73-year-old, disabled veteran had been locked in his basement for nearly 14 hours by people he trusted.
Police said the senior citizen's caretakers, 33-year-old Crystal Bryant and a 26-year-old woman, are now being charged with elderly abuse and theft.
Back on June 24, the man's landlord went to collect past due rent when he discovered the victim locked in the room behind a door in his home off West Field Drive in Dalton.
"There are always opportunist that will take advantage of anybody if they get the chance," said Edward Kinney. "There are people out there who don't care who they go after."
The man had been staying in the home for at least two months after leaving an assisted living facility.
Police said on several accounts, the elderly man would give the two women gas money for errands, but they would never return.
Larry Stewart said the VFW hall he attends reaches out to local veterans to make sure cases like this don't happen again.
"We need to let these people know that we will look after them if they have a problem and that is what we are here for," said Stewart.
The two say the abused man had never been through their post in Dalton, but said most disabled veterans around the abused man's age don't seek professional help from fear of being victims of clinical abuse.
But in this case, is was the caretakers at home who mistreated him.
The two are being charged with abuse of an elder and theft.
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