The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is investigating a U.S. nursing home where a woman worked who is wanted to stand trial in Bosnia for alleged war crimes including murdering and torturing civilians.
The woman also worked at another U.S. nursing home from 2003 to 2005 in the kitchen and as a nurse’s aide. The administrators of both nursing homes said criminal background checks did not reveal any reason not to hire the woman.
The former employee was arrested last month by the U.S. Marshals Service and accused of torturing and murdering ethnic Serbs at prison camps from April to June 1992, during the Bosnian civil war. Witnesses to those alleged crimes said she wore a Croatian army uniform at the time, according to federal court documents. 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.
