Caregiver Charged For Abuse Against Elderly Woman
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A caregiver has now been charged, after she was caught on camera in a Silver Spring retirement home abusing an elderly woman.
In November 2015, the 95-year-old victim’s son suspected his mother was being abused and set up a hidden camera.
A video shows the caregiver, 48-year-old Roxann Bucchan-Straker, striking wheelchair-bound patient in the head with a cell phone.
She told authorities she became frustrated when the woman took too long to eat.
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