Investigators Look Into Abuse At Dallas County Nursing Home
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Dallas County officials and state police are investigating the beating of an elderly woman in a Fordyce nursing
home.
State police investigator Terrie Smith says the 81-year-old
victim was found injured late last week by employees at Dallas County Nursing Home.
Smith says the victim is in critical condition at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, where she was taken for treatment of serious facial injuries. He says although doors are
normally locked at night, an outside door might have been left open
the night the woman was attacked, and possibly raped in her room.
Employees of the facility are being interviewed and Smith says
he plans to use lie detectors as part of the investigation.
