Florida – Health Care Workers Taunted & Abused Elderly Woman On Snapchat Live Stream
Two health care workers in Florida are facing elder abuse charges after allegedly taunting and abusing an elderly woman on a Snapchat live stream.
Sheriff Wayne Ivey said 20-year-old Shy’Tonia Bishop and 20-year-old Jada Harris live-streamed themselves shouting at and making fun of a patient with dementia who they were assigned to care for at a senior living facility.
Both are charged with video voyeurism and abusing a disabled adult or elderly person. Harris also faces a charge of illegal interception of communication.
“The only good news, in this case, is that the victim is now safe and sound with true professional health care workers that are with her and her family taking care of her,” Ivey said during a news conference.
The sheriff’s office released a video clip of an incident that led to the charges. It shows two health care workers verbally abusing and taunting a woman who has dementia, according to the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Ivey said the senior living facility fired Harris and Bishop after learning about the incident.
“I’m pretty ticked off about this, as you can tell,” Ivey said. “Our corrections team, the professionals that they are, will treat these two pieces of crap with professionalism, and they’ll do their job.”
Bishop was released from jail on $4,000 bond, while Harris was released on $6,000 bond.
“I wouldn’t let them care for a pet cobra because he might accidentally bite them and he would die of scumbag poisoning,” Ivey said. “Not only are they bags of crap, but the people that were on there laughing and mocking this poor lady, yeah, you’re bags of crap, too.”
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