Ex-worker sentenced to life for torturing elderly

Ex-worker sentenced to life for torturing elderly

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

(05-26) 12:09 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) --

A former caregiver convicted of torturing, body-slamming and taunting elderly patients at an upscale Calabasas retirement home has been sentenced to life in prison.

Twenty-one-year-old Cesar Ulloa received the sentence Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. He was convicted in April of one count of torture and seven counts of elder abuse.

Witnesses testified that Ulloa body-slammed a mute 78-year-old woman, leaped from a dresser and landed both knees in an elderly man's stomach and told another patient he "was sexing his daughter."

Silverado Senior Living home residents, many suffering from dementia and other debilitating illnesses, were unable to report the abuse.


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During his trial, a former coworker testified that she saw the Reseda resident clench his right fist and punch a wheelchair-bound man in the stomach.

"Haven't you had enough?" former caregiver Luz Alvarez recalled Ulloa saying, laughing as the man gasped.

Ulloa was named employee of the month during his tenure at Silverado Senior Living, where he was responsible for bathing residents and escorting them around the facility. Relatives of residents pay upward of $70,000 a year to house their loved ones at the elite retirement home.

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Caregivers such as Ulloa, 19 at the time of the abuse, often took the floor with only a high school diploma and a few days of training.

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Suspicions about Ulloa were spurred after a resident’s widow received an anonymous phone call in 2007 alerting her that her husband’s death was caused by abuse, not natural causes as the family had believed.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies retrieved the man’s body from the grave and found dozens of broken bones around his chest. A radiologist at trial compared the trauma to being hit by a train.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/05/former-caregiver-to-be-sentenced-for-elderly-abuse-at-calabasas-retirement-home.html

enough to go to jail.

one day he will depend on someone else for care and may find out out that "karma is a bitch".

Belong in hell.


:mad:

elite retirement home

$70,000 a year

Ulloa, 19 at the time of the abuse, often took the floor with only a high school diploma and a few days of training

That's a clear cut case of a sociopathic predator who will (at least until he's elderly himself) always be a danger to society.

The articles don't say, but it looks to me like there are a number of other people who likely ought to face some charges here....