BY KIMBER SOLANA
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
A Carmel mother and daughter were found guilty Wednesday of elder abuse by Monterey County Superior Court Judge Terrance R. Duncan.
Lisa MacAdams, 53, and Christi Schoenbachler, 30, will be sentenced Jan. 15 and face a maximum penalty of four years and eight months in prison, officials said.
The victim is MacAdams’ mother – and Schoenbachler’s grandmother – and was abandoned at the Monterey Care Center after the pair took over all her finances, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said.
In 2002, when the victim was 72, she moved with her daughter to Monterey County, officials said. She had money from the sale of her mobile home, about $90,000, along with furniture, artwork and jewelry valued up to $200,000.
By July 2004, the victim’s bank account had been drained, officials said. Her annuity had been cashed out and all her personal possessions had been sold off.
Schoenbachler and MacAdams were charged with felony violations of grand theft and financial elder abuse by a caretaker. They were also charged with two misdemeanor counts of inflicting unjustifiable mental suffering on an elder for twice abandoning the victim in a residential facility
SOURCE: The Californian.Com
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1 comment:
This Judge needs to be evaluated! There was NO evidence that these ladies took $300k from the grandmother/mother. Further more, this "elderly" woman has sued a number of people within her family for the same thing! She currently owes back taxes to the IRS and told them she didn't have any assets at the time. Now she is claiming she had $200k in assets! I think the IRS needs to look into this woman. 2 innocent people have been sentenced to jail now, for nothing....think about people, this could happen to any one of us, this judge required NO evidence! It's ridiculous!
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