An aged care worker who was captured on hidden camera slapping and hitting a dementia patient in a Sydney nursing home has been sentenced to at least six months in home detention. Dana Gray, 59, was working in The Poplars aged care home in North Epping last year when one of her colleagues became suspicious of her behaviour and set up the camera. The video shows Gray slapping and pushing the elderly lady and pulling off her clothes aggressively before taking a bag filled with rubbish and hitting her again.
September 20, 2018
Mayo Healthcare Group Pty Ltd is facing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers (Scarlett).
September 20, 2018
The Health Services Union and Barwon Health will debate a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne.
September 20, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Southern Cross Care (Tas) Inc for its Southern Cross Care (Tas) Inc and Mary’s Grange Inc Staff Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on 19 September 2018.
September 20, 2018
ACH Group is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Conference Room 6a – Level 6 in Adelaide (Kutchen).
September 20, 2018
Breaking News! Owen Rolf Nixon has been sentenced by Wagga Local Court after terrorising Riverina Gums Retirement Village.
September 20, 2018
A nursing home worker said “what are you whingeing for?” and “you can go to sleep now” as he repeatedly punched an elderly and vulnerable resident, an Adelaide court has heard. Michael Andrew Mullen was working at the Lourdes Valley Residential Care Centre when he allegedly punched resident Elizabeth “Libby” Hannaford in the early hours of November 19, 2015. Mullen, 54, has pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated assault and is on trial before Adelaide Magistrate Elizabeth Sheppard. Opening the trial, prosecutor Patrick Hill said Ms Hannaford squealed and screamed as Mullen punched her four or five times to the right side of her face out of frustration. Mr Hill said the assault was aggravated because Ms Hannaford was over 60 years of age and “particularly vulnerable”, and because Mullen was in a position of trust. Mullen allegedly lost his temper after Ms Hannaford repeatedly pulled out cords which alerted staff if she fell out of her bed. “ (Mullen) said ‘if you don’t stop doing this and I have to come back again there will be bloody consequences’ and ‘I have had a gutful of you mucking about’,” Mr Hill said. “Out of increasing frustration at Ms Hannaford’s behaviour, and after numerous interactions, the accused struck her to the face more than once.” The court heard the assault was witnessed by Ms Hannaford’s roommate, who told police Mullen had been chastising the 72-year old in a loud, angry voice before she heard sounds “like when you punch your fist into your hand”. The trial will hear some witnesses through a video link and is expected to run for more than a week.
September 20, 2018
A man has faced court charged with the indecent assault of a wheelchair-bound woman suffering severe dementia and Alzheimer’s while he was visiting a Sydney nursing home. David Patrick Frost, 68, was seeing his father at the eastern suburbs aged-care facility in November 2017 when he allegedly pushed the elderly woman into a bedroom, lifted her onto a bed and removed her pants. He’s facing a two-day hearing before magistrate Daniel Covington in Downing Centre Local Court after pleading not guilty to the aggravated indecent assault of a cognitively impaired victim. The alleged victim died in March.
