Botbyl was found guilty of fourth-degree vulnerable adult abuse in October and sentenced today;<\/p>\n
She was ordered to complete a 56-hour work program and pay $1,275 in fees, rather than the potential one-year maximum jail sentence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, I know Alzeimer’s patients are a tough crowd, sometimes, but caretakers are supposed to be the adults in the room. This one got off light.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laurie Lynn Botbyl, a former caretaker at Grand Rapids Home for Veterans, lost her patience and shoved the wheelchair of 83-year-old Army veteran Maynard Mathers into a desk during the evening hours of March 27, 2016 according to MLive. Mr Mathers was an Alzheimer’s disease patient and he sustained minor injuries. He died a year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Laurie-Lynn-Botby.jpg?fit=800%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jA1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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