Posted on 12/19/2006 8:32:58 AM PST by madison10
WARREN, Mich. — An 84-year-old man who took his 81-year-old wife from a Michigan nursing home and moved her to Florida has been charged with kidnapping her...
...Helen Perez had a stroke in 1994, and her husband cared for her in their Warren home until she hurt a finger in October 2005. Authorities said the injury was a sign of possible abuse and said Joseph Perez was not properly caring for her.
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All men should love their wives so much. Poor fella.
Nothing so dumb as an "Authority".
All your wives are belong to us.
Are those the same 'authorities' who insist on returning very obviously abused and neglected children to their 'parents'?
I kept waiting for someone to do that for Terri!
""This is a woman who couldn't speak. She had a heart condition," George Heitmanis told the Detroit Free Press. "Joseph Perez took her out on a day pass and never returned. He did not take her medication."
So that means she couldn't WRITE her intentions and displeasure?
And so what if he didn't take the medications the nursing home had. What makes this moron think the husband didn't have medications at home for her?
I get so tired of this 'nanny' crap!
I like this man.
Some times, I long for the good old days of tar and feathers.
...stated an anonymous authority on the subject.
"The right of the people to secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects againts unreasonable searches and seizures...shall not be violated" Amendment IV
"No person may deprived of life, liberty or property with due process of law" Amendment V
"Slavery, nor involuntary servitude...shall exist in the United States" Amendment XIII
My mother was in a nursing home for a few months. She hated it. She wanted to live with my niece, her grandaughter. We spent $10,000.00 for a medi-flight to move her. Her doctor said she couldn't be moved. I asked him if I should get a second opinion. He released her and she died at home........two years later. Nursing homes are a terrible place to end your days in.
I kept waiting for Jeb Bush to do that for Terri. But alas, Jeb had/has no balls. A real man like Ronald Reagan would have done something to save her life and give her back to her parents who wanted to care for her.
I agree, as part of my clinical experience for nursing school I am required to work for an extended period of time in a low income nursing home. My eyes were opened to the reality of nursing homes. The clients are medicated into submission and it is a terrible place to have to be. I pray that I will not ever have to resort to placing any of my family members into a nursing home. It also taught me how important it is to have a substantial savings to sustain me in my old age. The more money you have the better the facility.
George Heitmanis was appointed guardian by Macomb County Probate Judge Gilbert O'Sullivan, and the woman was placed in the nursing home.
It sounds like it wasn't the husband that was guilty of kidnapping.
-Eric
I agree.
It seems that once you are in a nursing home, you basically give up any rights as a citizen and hand them over to the state.
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