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Nursing Home Abuse
Lawsuit filed Against California Nursing Care Facility
August 07, 2007
Leaving your parents in a care facility is not an easy choice for most people. In fact it's probably the hardest decision a person can ever have to make. Imagine the distress therefore when the very people you entrust your parents' well being to turn out to perpetrate horrific abuses of the worst kind. On August 3, two lawsuits were filed against the Fillmore Convalescent Center in Fillmore, California charging it with elder abuse and negligence.
The lawsuit comes two months after a young worker at the facility, Monica Garcia was arrested on charges of abuse of the elderly and negligence. Garcia is accused of abusing 69 year old Maria Arellano who along with her husband Felix Arellano Sr. has filed one of the lawsuits in the Ventura County, California Superior Court. The Arellanos' attorneys claim Maria was abused continually from February 2006. These shocking incidents might have gone unnoticed if it wasn't for the efforts of the Arellano's son, Joe who set up a camera in her room and captured numerous instances of abuse on tape.
The other lawsuit was filed by another inmate of the Fillmore Convalescent Center, Daniel Sanchez who claims the Center was aware of what was going on but chose to turn a blind eye.
Garcia is expected to arrive at the court on August 10 for her arraignment. She has been charged by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office with one count of crimes against elders. The Arellanos are seeking monetary compensation for the trauma Maria Arellano went through.
Such instances of nursing home abuse are sadly enough not a rare phenomenon. Good nursing homes are hard to find, and rampant abuse and neglect is not unheard of especially in the run for profit nursing home chains that are proliferating all over the country.
Small wonder then that the nursing home lobby has been frantically working to make it difficult for individuals to sue them for abuse or neglect. If your loved ones have been the victims of elder abuse, you need experienced attorneys on your side. Call the personal injury lawyers at The Reeves Law Group for a free consultation.
