Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying additional victims of a nursing home employee who was charged with sexually assaulting an elderly disabled woman. Police say the 28-year-old male maintenance worker faces one felony count each of sexual battery on an institutionalized victim and sexual penetration of an incompetent victim.
The man allegedly entered the victim’s room between in June – July 2012 and sexually assaulted her. The victim suffers from dementia. The former nursing home employee accused of the crime faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. Officials are seeking information from the community about the possibility of other victims. For more, read the story.
Robert W. Carter, Jr. is a Virginia attorney whose law practice is dedicated to protecting the rights of the victims of nursing home and assisted living neglect and abuse in Richmond, Roanoke, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Danville, Charlottesville, and across Virginia.
