Moment cruel carer throws dementia-stricken pensioner, 88, around ‘like a rag doll’ and threatens to ‘flog him” days before he died
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14853747/Moment-cruel-carer-dementia-pensioner-threatens-flog-him.html
Posted by cennep44
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>Shocking CCTV footage has shown a carer ‘violently degrading’ a frail elderly man with dementia – as she hurled him around ‘like a rag doll’ just days before he died.
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>Cruel Bilikesu Olagunju, 42, who had been in the job just six days, was caught on camera ‘manhandling’ John Attard, 88, at his home in Bexley, Kent, a court heard.
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>Footage captured during the 45-minute visit shows the ordeal from which the great-grandfather never recovered, according to his family.
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>Olagunju, who at the time was employed by Unique Personnel UK, stripped Mr Attard, threatened to beat him up and even dragged him across his living room floor.
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>She is also said to have ignored the elderly man as he repeatedly told her she was ‘hurting’ him.
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>At one point, Olagunju tells him: ‘Maybe I will beat you up. I will flog you. I will take you to the GP to get injections. I will call the police on you.’
She got a six weeks suspended prison sentence.
I wonder if cases like this are the tip of the iceberg. How many more people are being abused and there aren’t cameras there to see it.
shocking sentence. this is what happens when you hire people who don’t care into the care industry.
Elderly abuse should be treated like child abuse. Disgusting sentence and shocking that their are no checks or training for the people who look after the frail and sick.
>John was Olagunju’s first assignment as a care worker in the UK.
They’re just putting anyone thy can find in these jobs, it should be criminal. It doesn’t mention her home country that I can see, I bet thy don’t treat their old people like that there either.
Not only should she be in prison but we should also go after employers if these things happen repeatedly.
How the fuck is that not a manslaughter conviction?
Absolute scum. Joke of a sentence too, should be at least a couple of years in prison.
She’s basically killed the old lad and got away with 6 weeks suspended. I wouldn’t be surprised if her 50 hours community service is down at the local care home.
My dad had brilliant care from young lads who came in on a work visa. If she did the same, she needs to go when her 50 hours is up because she’s undoing the good work of many carers from overseas.
The company she worked for need watching like a hawk too.
This is more common than you think. It is especially more difficult to monitor when the elderly, frail, vulnerable or those with deteriorating mental state live alone. If people place their parents with care services visiting home please install home monitoring devices inside every room and outside. Also it may seem simple but try and visit or at the very least call your relative who has carers, ask them how they feel, what their carer has done for them, if they turn up on time etc.