'Disgusting' Florida health care workers fired and arrested after filming themselves abusing a screaming dementia patient and calling her 'embarrassing' on Instagram livestream

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 11, 2023 | Alex Hammer

[Morgana]

A pair of senior-care nurse aides are currently facing felony charges - for filming themselves mistreating a dementia-stricken patient for followers on social media.

The disturbing video shows Shy'Tiona Bishop, 20, and 18-year-old Jada Harris, terrorizing the female senior at an assisted living center in Northeastern Florida, laughing and mocking her throughout.

The footage was livestreamed on one of the staffers' Instagram accounts on April 3, and was subsequently aired during a press conference presided over by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office Monday.

The unnamed senior - since confirmed to be a dementia patient at the Melbourne facility - can be heard screaming as the pair repeatedly joke and laugh at the camera and ignore the woman's cries.

At one point, the staffers purposely block the woman from entering her bathroom, and begrudgingly help her put on a pair of pants while complaining about being forced to look after the senior. Both women have since been fired.

'I'm sorry, yeah. She is embarrassing,' Harris can be heard saying in the clip, which Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey slammed as 'disgusting' Monday after announcing the charges against the duo, who have since been relieved from their posts at the old folks home.

Chiding the women for their behavior, Ivey also decried the state for setting both of the suspects' bond at $6,000 or less, with Bishop's only set at $4,000 despite the range of offenses.

The meeting saw the sheriff unveil the elderly abuse case for the first time, after receiving a tip from someone working at the facility, identified Monday as Market Street Viera in Melbourne, about the April 3 livestream and a week of investigations.

[jagusafr]

One of the biggest issues with senior living facilities is the low wages that keep good workers from staying and incentivize bad workers to hang around and get anesthetized to the sufferings of their charges.

[dfwgator]

Kids should take care of their parents. Need to get back to extended families living together. Lord knows the houses are big enough to accomodate it.

[Vehmgericht]

Bad hair day. Or possibly bad hair life.

[GAgal]

Abuse of an older person has the following penalties in FL:

For a third-degree crime, the maximum sentence is five years in jail.
For a first-degree crime, the sentence may be up to thirty years.
...........................................................

[bk1000]

“The disturbing video shows Shy’Tiona Bishop, 20
Pronounced “shit on ya?”

That was the way I read it, too!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

If you can not be there in person at all times you need to be able to see at all time.

Some people out there are down right evil and they choose professions where they can abuse the helpless.

[Joe Brower]

heartwood wrote: "That scares me about getting old. Don’t want to be a burden on my children, don’t want to fall into the hands of the cruel or negligent."

And that's a real concern. I'm sure that goes for many of us here. The gulf coast here in Florida has long been called "God's waiting room", and for good reason.

My wife and I took care of my mother in her last years, and the final two were very hard -- her capabilities dwindled so badly, and she was at the mercy of medical staff who, shall we say, were sometimes less than compassionate. Many were great, some were not. This work takes a special sort of personality, which is all too rare these days.

And as much as I hate to say it, I did see an attitude in some of the black folk working at these nursing homes who did have a "all my problems are whiteys fault" chip on their shoulder. Dealing with them was never a good time.

Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

[CodeToad]

Florida takes licensure seriously. Licenses are hard to get and easy to lose. We can only hope those involved and their managers lose their licenses.

[Guenevere]

This facility is in my neck of the woods and from the outside it looks very modern and well kept
But Sheriff Wayne Ivey is a tough guy, the kind you want protecting you, one of the best!
If it’s up to him, these two hellish minions will receive harsh penalties

[lowbridge]

Look at that smug smile on her face in her booking photo. No shame. No remorse.

[Sirius Lee]

Shy'Tiona