Carer Jailed After Attacking 90-Year-Old Patient (UK)

GREENHITHE: Carer jailed after attacking 90-year-old patient

11th March 2010

By Court reporter 

A NURSING home carer has been jailed for four months after hitting a 90-year-old patient with an incontinence pad.

Gift Mwakyusa, 27, was sentenced yesterday (March 10) at Medway Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty of common assault at an earlier hearing.

The court heard Mwakyusa and another carer, 25-year-old Anna Ramos, were seen abusing the patient at Rosewood Care Home in Bean Road, Greenhithe, in March last year.

They taunted the patient and hit her on the face and body with an incontinence pad while she was sitting naked in bed, the court heard.

When another carer saw the abuse and asked them to stop they refused and continued to attack the patient who was crying out for help.

Sentencing Mwakyusa, of Uplands Close in Richmond-upon-Thames, Judge Michael Kelly said: “This is a very distressing case and is made all the worse that this lady was slapped a number of times.

“You abused a position of trust towards a victim who was particularly vulnerable. You treated her with contempt and almost tortured her, taunting her, laughing at her, abusing her.

“This was a horrific offence and no other sentence can be passed other than a custodial one.”

The abuse was not reported to the police until two months after it took place.

Mwakyusa, who is from Tanzania and was studying in the UK at the time, was found in London and arrested.

Ramos, of St Paul’s Street in Clitheroe, Lancaster, was found in Lancashire where she was charged with common assault.

Abridged
SOURCE:     ThisIsLocalLondon, UK
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