Carer Gift Mwakyusa jailed for abuse
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by Katie Lamborn
A north Kent nursing home carer has been jailed for four months
for hitting a 90-year-old patient around the face with an
incontinence pad.
In March 2009, Gift Mwakyusa, 27 was seen with Anna Ramos,
25, of St Paul’s Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire
abusing an elderly resident at the Rosewood Care Home in
Greenhithe.
The patient was sitting up on her bed unclothed while the two
carers were taunting her by hitting her around the face and body
with an incontinence pad.
When another carer saw them and asked them to stop they
didn't.
The court heard Mwakyusa was from Tanzania and
was part-way through a two-year period of study.
Mwakyusa of Uplands Close, London was found guilty at a previous
hearing at Medway Magistrates Court last month, where she
pleaded not guilty to common assault.
Judge Michael Kelly said: “This is a very
distressing case and is made all the worse that this lady was
slapped a number of times.
He said: “You treated her with contempt and
almost tortured her, taunting her, laughing at her – abusing
her.
The abuse was not reported until two months later.
Ramos was found in Lancashire, where she was
charged with the offence but failed to turn up to court. She was
found guilty in her absence and a warrant for her arrest was
issued.
The home's manager at the time was
removed from post and another woman was arrested in connection with
the assault and cautioned by the police for perverting the course
of justice.
Neither will work in the nursing field again.
The victim's family have called the incident
"sickening".
“She is in the last years of her life and she
should be safe and happy in this time and not at risk of abuse from
carers who should never be allowed to work in this profession
again.”
Thursday, March 11 2010
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