Posted on 05/22/2020 9:24:45 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
The video of a 20-year-old brutally beating an elderly patient at a Detroit nursing home has gotten national attention - and even the President has weighed in. Now police are investigating a possible second incident caught on camera while the young man's father says there's more to the story.
The 20-year-old, who FOX 2 is not identifying as he has not yet been charged with a crime, was on video beating an elderly patient at Westwood Nursing Center earlier this week. The violent video is incredibly difficult to watch for most - including the father of the younger man, who says he's praying for the elderly victim.
"That hurts to see that," he said. "What he did is wrong and (I offer) my apologies to the victim's family."
The father, who asked not to be identified, said his son has had several health issues growing home, has autism, and called from a group home in Chelsea last week to say he wasn't sleeping, was feeling anxious, and hearing voices.
"I just don't want people to think that he's this vicious individual. He's got mental issues," his father said.
He said his son called 911 and was taken to a mental health facility in Ann Arbor. Last Wednesday, he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and said he was supposed to be taken to another facility to be quarantined. "It should've never happened because he should've never been put in that environment."
His father also says there is a pending case in Washtenaw County where his son is accused of assaulting a staff member at another group home. The young man's father says he's had serious behavioral problems for a long time and should have been closely monitored at Westwood.
"Had I known he was there I would've never have consented to it," he said.
On the 20-year-old's YouTube channel, you can see dozens of boxing videos and so-called pranks. The young man is known to attend NorWayne Boxing Gym but the folks there say he was never a member or a part of the gyms youth program. They issued a statement on their website:
"We share everyone's sadness over this situation. What this highlights is the importance of helping at-risk kids in our community at an early age."
Meanwhile an attorney for Westwood Nursing Center tells FOX 2 they were unaware of the attack until they saw the video, they're investigating the situation and cooperating with police. They added the young man was not a long-term resident.
Detroit police say the man is in custody and awaiting charges. Police are now investigating whether the same man is involved in another beating of an elderly woman.
It’s not withheld on Twitter.
Was the perp a patient in a psych facility when he contracted WuFlu, anyone know?
“Was the perp a patient in a psych facility when he contracted WuFlu, anyone know?”
Hmmmm... Never heard anything about that.
Fox said the guy’s name was being withheld. Maybe that was their own decision.
If the perp hasn’t been charged yet, that may be why. Or that’s the excuse they’re using.
But the Feds, if there are some honest ones left, need to get on this pronto because I’ll bet this is part of something much bigger. And there’s likely a whole lotta deleting and shredding going on.
I agree with the father, he should not have been there.
“I’ll bet this is part of something much bigger.”
No kidding. If you saw Tucker last night, his first segment was about widespread abuse in nursing homes. It was tough to watch. We came close to turning it off because it was so disturbing. There are so many facets to the problem, with the newest one being the lockdown, where family is prohibited to check on their elderly. The “caretakers” (abusers) have free rein to let their sadism play out knowing that it’ll never be discovered.
Before lockdown, one family suspected abuse of their mother so secretly installed a “nanny cam”. They learned she was being raped by a worker.
Others were organizing fight games among the Alzheimer’s patients, having them fight each other.
(Sadly, all abusers were ... well ... NOT Caucasion.)
My MIL was robbed of her valuables, including expensive jewelry, while in an end-of-life coma at an upscale assisted living home in SoCal. Later we said we wished we had put in a camera.
Some daycare centers have live streaming so parents can log in and see what’s going on. Even pet transport services provide that for customers to check on their pets 24/7. Why the hell isn’t that standard within nursing homes?
He wasn’t an employee of the nursing home. He was a coronavirus-positive criminal sent to the nursing home by mandate of the governor (probably with the intent of killing off old folks who don’t pay taxes any more and cost the state money).
You nailed it... just include the ACLU.
The majority have forgotten or never knew why involuntary commitment laws and state hospitals were necessary in the first place.
Autism has become a generic term used to label a wide range of brain damaged people to gloss over the fact that some are chronically and explosively violent.
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