Police have charged a woman over a series of alleged robberies targeting elderly nursing home residents on the Sunshine Coast. Among them, according to police, was a 91-year-old woman who was abducted from her retirement home, robbed and left to spend a night disorientated when she was unable to find her way home. It will be alleged the same offender two weeks later targeted a random 94-year-old woman at another retirement home and accused her of kidnapping her child before robbing her. Police said the accused coerced the 91-year-old woman into her car at a Maroochydore retirement village on June 13, drove her to an ATM and forced her to hand over money. It will be alleged she dropped the elderly woman back near her home, but she became lost and spent almost two weeks in hospital recovering from dehydration after she was found the next morning.. Police will allege the same offender On June 27 tried to convince a 94-year-old woman at Immanuel Gardens Retirement Living and Aged Care in Buderim that the pair knew each other.
