An employee at a Medical Center-area nursing home is accused of slapping a 84-year old woman with Alzheimer’s disease, according to SAPD.
Marcelina Felipa Ruiz was charged with injury to the elderly by facility caregiver, a second-degree felony, records show.– An employee at a Medical Center-area nursing home is accused of slapping a 84-year old woman with Alzheimer’s disease, causing her face to bruise and swell, according to San Antonio police.
A witness told police that he heard screaming coming from the patient’s room, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. When he went to check on the situation, he saw Ruiz and the patient alone inside the room. Because of the woman’s condition, she reacted by grabbing Ruiz’s forearm. Ruiz noticed she had been scratched and then slapped the patient across the face, the affidavit states.Investigators said the force caused bruising and swelling to the patient’s left cheek. One officer noted the “swelling and redness was more pronounced when he arrived to the location.”
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