Arma woman enters plea in elder-abuse case w/ plea agreement
By Greg Grisolano
An Arma woman will have to repay more than $130,000 and transfer property to the estate of an elderly woman as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time in a felony abuse case.
Ernestine Anselmi, 75, pleaded guilty this week in Crawford County District Court to a single felony charge of mistreatment of a dependent adult. Anselmi and her husband, Ernest “Sonny” Anselmi, 74, were charged last year by Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six with bilking $923,897 out of Lena Zanichelli, for whom they were serving as “unofficial caregivers.”
The Anselmis were accused of using “undue influence, coercion, deception, and false representation” to obtain control of Zanichelli’s bank account.
Ernest Anselmi died in June, shortly before the case was scheduled to go to trial. Zanichelli, who was 97 when charges were filed against the Anselmis in the summer of 2008, died in March.
Niece’s view.
Zanichelli’s niece, Tina Vanderelzen, of Waterford, Mich., told the Globe in a phone interview in September 2008 that her aunt’s mental capacity must have waned to the point that the Anselmis could take advantage of her.
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SOURCE: The Joplin Globe
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