Dec 18 2008
Teens gone beyond wild, this is sickening
Normally, I don’t get into the news reports too often, there are enough blogs about them. However, the following story sickened me so much, I had to write in about it. This my fellow humans is what happens when teens are given power, and no supervision.
Alberta Lea, Minnesota-
Six young females have been charged with abuse against the elderly in a case that is rocking this small town. The Good Samaritan Society nursing home was the site of the sexual abuse and humiliation done to elderly residents by this group of teens.
According to the complaints, residents were spanked, spit on, improperly touched, and humiliated by these teenagers. Two of the defendants, Ashton Larson, and Brianna Broitzman were named as the ringleaders, and the only ones charged who were not minors at the time.
The abuse occurred between January 2008 and May 2008, with the girls meeting and talking with themselves sharing stories about the incidents. They claim in police interviews that the things they did were because they were “frustrated” at work and just looking for fun. That poking at a residents breasts was simply in fun, and not to cause pain. Larson admits she has video taped the abuse, and had pictures on her phone as well.
The following is a list of some of the supposed assaults according to police interviews done with the teens.
1.When doing care on patients with dementia or Alzheimer’s, the girls would hit the residents on the breasts and genitals, or rub on them to make them angry.
2.Broitzman and Larson would touch a specific male resident in his privates to make him get an erection and get angry.
3.Broitzman spit into a residents mouth because the resident was drooling.
4. The girls would repeatedly poke the residents in the breasts and laugh.
5. They would confuse the patients who had dementia on purpose as a joke.
6. The teens propped residents up in bed, put on their glasses, and danced around.
7. Rubbed on the elderlys genitals to get them turned on, and laugh about it.
8. Broitzman and Larson would spank a certain male resident with his own cane, and pat his bottom.
9. Larson inserted her finer into a resident’s rectum.
10. Broiztman put her fingers into a residents mouth and nose until she screamed because Broiztman thought it was funny.
11. Larson put her bare bottom in a residents face.
The charges are considered assault in the Fifth Degree by a Caregiver of a Vulnerable Adult. Larson and Broiztman face up to a year in jail on each charge of abuse, Larson charged with 10 criminal counts, and Broitzman with 11 criminal counts. More charges could follow as the investigation continues and more reports of abuse come in.
Of the many questions to arise from this story, the most important one seems to be “Where was the supervision of the teens?” To have a group this young working closely with residents and not have a more experienced caregiver watching their moves may leave the nursing home wide open for civil cases.
As for these young girls, their actions of “looking for fun” at work have now ruined their young lives. To be known as an abuser of the weak, of the elderly, even years from now when these teens have families of their own, this time in their lives will never be forgotten. I sincerely hope they are found guilty on the highest charges possible, and made to pay the full price of their torture.
To the families of the elderly residents who were abused, they have my utmost sympathy, and I wish they are able to spend what is rest of their lives in peace now.
