I read the saddest story over the weekend about an 85-year-old woman who had been taken from her Pennsylvania nursing home by her 50-someting son. He dumped her from his car and ran over her several times, killing her. How sickening and tragic.
As someone who has lived in nursing homes over the last four years, I can't grasp there is any way, rationally-speaking, that a home could not have seen something in the son's behavior toward their patient to prevent them from letting him take her. In fact, in this case, a guardian had been appointed by the court to care for her -- someone saw red flags, but that didn't keep the facility from letting her go out with her diabolical son.
He sits in jail, charged under Pennsylvania law with 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree murder.
But that won't do his Mom any good.
