Posted on 06/27/2024 5:07:25 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
ARLINGTON — Police uncovered at least 19 additional deaths that may be connected to an Arlington businesswoman already charged with endangerment earlier this year.
Regla "Su" Becquer, who operated an illegal home-based healthcare company, is now at the center of a much larger investigation. Arlington police have been investigating Becquer for months and her unlicensed company, "Love & Caring for People LLC," which operated community living homes.
"After everything we've learned, I think it's clear to say she did not love or care for anyone," said Lt. Kimberly Harris of Arlington police.
Authorities learned that her company, which claimed to provide supervised personal care for adults in need throughout five homes in Tarrant County, was actually serving abuse, neglect, and fraud.
"We were deeply concerned about what we saw in these homes and what we had heard up until that point. Today, I am here to tell you that's just the tip of the iceberg," said Harris.
Since September 2022, police have found at least 20 clients of hers who have died and say there could be more. Most of the victims were cremated or buried, and only two had autopsies. One of those autopsies is being reviewed, while the other revealed that 60-year-old Steven "Kelly" Pankratz died from mixed drug toxicity while under Becquer's care.
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Very disturbing that you never know what goes on behind closed doors of “elderly care facilities”. I’ve often wondered how my loved ones ceased to exist in them.
Who does she think she is, Hillary Clinton?
“Very disturbing that you never know what goes on behind closed doors of “elderly care facilities”.”
My sister visited our mother every day while she was recuperating from a procedure. None of the staff dealing with the patients spoke English. The only way our mother’s diaper got changed was my sister saw to it that it happened. Later, the government closed the facility.
As for the call button, you could ring it all day. If there were enough staff to answer they didn’t. And, if they had answered how would the patient get across the language barrier what the issue was?
After experience with assisted living and then nursing home for a friend, we will never agree to either.
Assisted living decides when you need nursing home. Nursing home puts you on hospice.
Is the news biased against black women or are they really a majority of extreme evil I. The u.s.? Black guys can be thugs but some black women are sadistic, not immature. Pure Sadistic!!
Is the news biased against black women or are they really a majority of extreme evil I. The u.s.? Black guys can be thugs but some black women are sadistic, not immature. Pure Sadistic!!
Thanks for the information. My observations with my parents and grandmother’s care always left me wondering. My grandmother’s facility always smelled like urine when you walked in. My dad’s place was like a private residence and he asked me to get him out of there (he was in bad shape congestive heart failure). I never saw mom’s facility because it was far away and my sister was checking in on her.
That is a huge worry.
This is what pissed me off when nursing homes were off limits to family during covid. I worked many years in nursing homes and I was very glad to have family members come to visit as often as possible. They loved and cared about their family member in the home and it helped the staff also. There are a lot of homes that if family members couldn’t come in and see their loved one...the resident wouldn’t get the best care they deserved. Truth! And I have seen nasty nurses and aides also.
When my mom and Mother-in-law were such facilities we often showed up at unanounced times to check on them. Kept the operators on their toes!
A friend of mine was in a nursing home in Denver. He completely distrusted the Hispanic assistants there. But then he was so senile I doubt if he would know the difference between one of them or someone with a deep tan.
Horrible, just horrible. Makes me think of those evil nurses in Atlanta that let the veteran suffocate in the nursing home. The man’s son had set up a hidden camera to record what was happening in his father’s room.
My Mother was in assisted living for 10 years. The care was so so. She often fell and off to the hospital she would go despite being perfectly fine. Last hospitalization she had the facility refused to take her back until she was mobile. She wasn’t mobile when she left and was reaching her 100th birthday.
We put her in a local nursing home and the care she got there was fantastic. The staff was simply wonderful. She died one month after turning 100.
My impression was the assisted living facility was all about the money. The cost every month was exorbitant. When she left seven years ago the fee was $14,000 a month!
BUMP
Can she volunteer to help illegals?
It gets worse.
My father-in-law was in several nursing homes (with dementia/Alzheimers).
The nursing home would create an "emergency" and call an ambulance to transport him to the local hospital ER. They would call us after he had left the facility and inform us.
And then, lo and behold, they would refuse to take him back when the ER released him. It's called "dumping" and was a known and common nursing home practice.
That is the answer...hidden cameras
that was my first thought as well
but i think hillary has her beat
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