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Naked elderly men left on the floor with their excrement, wedged between the protective bars of the bed, with conspicuous sores and a pressure ulcer in a patient that was not treated properly and consequently worsened over time. These are the photos, seized by the police, taken by an employee of a retirement home that triggered the investigation of the Catania prosecutor’s office. At the conclusion of the investigations, carried out between March and June 2019, the investigating judge, accepting the request of the prosecutors, ordered the prohibition of doing business for 12 months for Giovanni Pietro Marchese, 60, sole director of the nursing home Saint Camillo. of Aci Sant’Antonio, and to practice the profession for nine months for three employees of the structure: Giovanna Giuseppina Coco, 37, and for the 41-year-old Rosaria Marianna Vasta and Alessandra Di Mauro.
The Nursing Home of Horrors – Video
The images in the investigation center were extrapolated from Coco’s cell phone, after it was seized along with other equipment by the police in July 2019. Checks also carried out by the military have revealed several serious irregularities and their colleagues. Del Nil also found that eleven workers were used ‘illegally’, including two suspects, Di Mauro and Vasta, and some of them deferred in a state of freedom for having received citizenship income illegally. According to the indictment, the staff “mistreated the elderly at the facility”, “created a habitual climate of harassment, humiliation and mortification”, “disinterested in care, including medical care, and assistance to the elderly and the precarious conditions sanitary “. from the nursing home, where mice have been sighted and the elderly contracted scabies, thus aggravating the state of physical and mental suffering of the guests ”.
Among the behaviors implemented, on several occasions, they tied the poor elderly to tables or beds so that they would not move, washed them with cold water or, as punishment, did not change them after their physiological needs or left them in bed with sheets dirty, they were washed with washing machine soap, then made fun of for their “aloe vera” smell. And again, they tried to cure scabies, according to the precise indications of the owner, with simple olive oil packets instead of the correct pharmacotherapy, they administered expired medications to the guests, they denigrated, mortified and insulted them in a habitual and specific way: or “disgusting , dirty, there is no one more disgusting than you, do not break my ……… “or” how disgusting a person, how disgusting, zero education, now I leave her on the chair all dirty with pee, like pigs “this aimed at a 100 person who was later forced to go to bed alone as punishment or” is an ignorant, rude, janitor and a disgusting person “or threatening an old woman to tie her up, leave her full of feces and do not wash it, always screaming and generating the cry of the poor woman All the elements that have made it possible to consolidate the evidence against the suspects and thus request and obtain the precautionary measure granted by the investigating judge of the Etna court.
