Posted on 03/26/2024 6:09:37 PM PDT by Morgana
A care home in California for autistic adults has been hit with a torture scandal after a former employee was allegedly filmed abusing two 'vulnerable' residents.
Adekunle Fabunmi, 35, has been accused of physically torturing two adults at the Elwyn-Mayall, a four-person home for people with developmental disabilities.
Fabunmi was caught on camera by another caregiver as he hit one of the residents, Jude Cabanete, 31, in the head at the Northridge facility.
Additional footage, reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, from August 25, showed Fabunmi continuing to hit Jude. On the same night, he punished another resident, Gregorio Topete, 30, an employee told police.
Both of the resident's mother's, Laura Topete and Mary Cabanete, have sued Fabunmi, Elwyn-Mayall and the North Los Angles County Regional Center.
The lawsuit stated that their sons were 'assaulted and battered' by the caregiver and that his colleagues did not step in to stop the abuse.
'I’m actually really grateful that somebody recorded it — because both of our sons are not good historians,” Laura Topete said. 'They would have gotten away with it.'
In response to the legal filling, Fabunmi declined to discuss the ongoing case and instead referred the Los Angels Times to his attorney Christian Oronsaye from Ivy Crest Attorneys.
In a letter, Oransaye said that his firm 'demands' that 'further communications' with Fabunmi cannot be made without permission.
'We have also interviewed our client and believe that the allegations against our client regarding the incident are false,' the letter stated.
On the night of alleged attack, Fabunmi was assigned to watch Jude, who had spread feces on his mattress and vomited on the floors, another staffer reported.
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I don’t know what I would do if I had to deal with someone spreading feces and barf around. Thank you, Lord God, for letting me be a computer need for a living rather than a nursing assistant.
African...but from what country?
How long has Adekunle been in the US?
Irish.
Pasty white with freckles.
Babies do that but you shouldn’t resort to curb stomping them for it.
Nigeria?
Yea but it’s one thing when a toddler does it, it’s another when a 30 year old does it.
I dealt with my grandmothers as they aged. Some of the stuff they did was just as annoying. I never felt the urge to punch them. Not because I am a nice person but because doing that would be wrong.
When you commit to care for someone, whether for love or money, you have a responsibility not to abuse them no matter how annoying they become.
And always remember, once you were also annoying and made messes and you will probably be that way again in the future. And what you dish out will return to you.
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