DA: Beware elder abusers
By Laurel J. Sweet
December 21, 2009
A highly educated and accomplished Lincoln couple married 63 years found out months before they succumbed to the ravages of old age that their longtime personal assistant had been stealing money from them.
“These people were smart, alert, engaged elders,” said Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr.
Leone founded the Safety and Protection For Every Elder Resident (SPEER) task force last year to combat the increasing number of economic predators preying on seniors in the suburbs.
Concord District Court Judge Peter Kilmartin last week banned Lettie McLeod, 52, of Tewksbury from ever working with the elderly or disabled again. He also ordered her to reimburse the Lincoln octogenarians’ five children $10,000 of the more than $65,000 prosecutors suspect she stole.
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SOURCE: The Boston Herald
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