An Exclusive Look Into Elder Abuse Task Force
February 11, 2010
Genesee County’s elder abuse task force is credited with saving countless seniors who are abused and neglected every year.
WNEM TV5’s Julie Banovic was given exclusive access to the team -- as it cracked another case in Genesee County.
In 2006, Dr. Dorothy Mulkey, of Flushing, was diagnosed with dementia.
She told WNEM TV5 she trusted Andrea Neil, her former office manager, to be her caretaker.
Not having any children of her own with her husband having recently died, Mulkey depended on Andrea and her husband Steven just like they were family.
"Who would assume that someone with that many years of trust and devotion would turn like that on you,” said Diane Nims, Executive Director of the elder abuse task force.
The doctor paid the Niels to run errands, pick up groceries and even get prescriptions filled. But what Mulkey didn’t know was that the couple was over medicating her.
Authorities said she was drugged so badly she didn’t know her own name.
"It took 12 days to detox this doctor so we could get her back to where she had some recognition and some memory of who she was,” said Genesee County Sheriff Robert J. Pickell.
WNEM TV5 reported that Mulkey was only allowed out of her drugged state on days when she was asked to sign checks.
Authorities said Andrea and Steven tricked her into signing over $3 million.
"I was devastated really,” Mulkey said. "They had me so doped up that I did whatever she suggested. I think she would have probably murdered me in the end.”
The Niels were not shy about spending their newly found $3 million fortune neither.
Copyright 2010 by WNEM.COM.
Abridged
SOURCE: WNEM.COM
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