Death Mocked on Snapchat Video: Senior Care Facility Workers Arrested Over Mocking Elderly Patient
All three of the workers, aged between 19 and 21, have been charged with exploitation and intimidation of disabled adults, which is a felony under Georgia law.
Three employees of Georgia senior care facility have been arrested after allegedly making a Snapchat video of an elderly, disabled woman who had suffered a stroke. Rather than providing care to the 76-year-old women, they made a Snapchat video and captioned it ‘The end’ while in a room with a dying stroke victim. The women were charged with monitoring the patient until a hospice nurse arrived. Another employee saw the video and reported the incident.
The video of the woman showed the female employees of Bentley Senior Living smoking a vape pen, using profanities and making obscene hand gestures and was shared on Snapchat. She has since died. Jefferson Police Detective Jay Parker said officers were summoned on Thursday, June 14, by the executive director of the Bentley Assisted Living in Jefferson. The video had apparently been recorded in the night before between 7 and 8pm. The manager watched the Snapchat video herself and she could identify the three – Mya Moss, Jorden Bruce and Lizeth Ramirez – as they sat in the patient’s room.
Video of Three Employees Mocking the Dying Patient on Snapchat
In the snapchat video, Ramirez and Bruce can be sitting in chairs laughing, screaming obscenities and using a vape cigarette while Moss was shooting the video. “They were obviously more interested in playing on the phone and making the video and cutting up and making a joke of the situation,” Parker said. “My understanding is that the hospice nurse had been contacted and these employees were supposed to be watching the female, and obviously that wasn’t happening.”
Parker also said the workers should have been paying much closer attention to the patient. “They should have been watching her. It was my understanding she was having difficulty swallowing, also, with moving around. She could have choked, fallen off the bed – anything. Since she’d had a stroke, her condition had worsened, and her health was declining, so that was a serious time they were experiencing.”
All three of the workers, aged between 19 and 21, have been charged with exploitation and intimidation of disabled adults, which is a felony under Georgia law that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and/or a fine up to 50,000 dollars. Parker said Moss and Bruce have been released on bond, however, the federal Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked that Ramirez not be released at this point.
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