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Published: Thursday, April 2, 2015, 12:03 PM
Updated: Thursday, April 2, 2015, 4:59 PM
The victim suffered a black eye from the beatdown, officials said.
A Queens nursing aide brutally assaulted an 80-year-old resident of a Rockaway nursing home, authorities said Thursday.
Marie Jeanty, 59, of Far Rockaway was caring for the bedridden senior citizen at the West Lawrence Care Center on Aug. 15, 2014, when the health care worker became enraged at the victim while trying to change her clothes and sheets, the state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office said.
Jeanty allegedly punched the elderly victim on her arm and shoulder and pushed her so hard into the bed that her face hit the bed rail.
The victim, who needs help taking care of herself due to osteoporosis, arthritis, and a bone marrow disease, suffered a black eye and swelling on her arm and face from the attack, prosecutors said.
She was treated at St. John's Episcopal Hospital.
DEBBIE EGAN-CHIN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSMarie Jeanty, 59, was arrested Thursday in the punching of an 80-year-old nursing home patient.
Jeanty was charged with second degree assault, and two felonies for endangering the welfare of another person.
As she turned herself into the investigators from the Attorney General’s office outside the 101st Precinct stationhouse on Thursday morning, she kept her head down, shying away from press that was gathered.
“Why did you put me on TV,” she asked the investigators.
She started making a loud whimpering sound as they handcuffed her and led her into the stationhouse.
The 80-year-old victim’s arm was also bruised.
Her attorney, Michaelangelo Matera, said Jeanty had worked at the nursing home for less than a year before the two “parted ways,” during the course of the Attorney General’s months-long investigation.
“Ms. Jeanty is obviously a very hard working person. She came to this country looking to make a better life for herself…in no way do I believe that she would have intentionally hurt anyone,” he said of the Haitian immigrant.
Matera entered a not guilty plea for his client at her arraignment in Queens Criminal Courthouse.
Jeanty, who did not speak during the proceeding, was released without bail, and did not speak to reporters afterwards.
DEBBIE EGAN-CHIN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSThe victim was at the West Lawrence Care Center when she was beaten, authorities said.
Schneiderman’s office, which handles crimes that take place in nursing homes, will prosecute the case.
“When New Yorkers place those who mean the most to them in a nursing home, they should have confidence that their loved ones are not in danger of severe physical abuse,” Schneiderman said in a statement.
But Matera claimed that Jeanty had given him her account of the story and that it did not back up the charges.
“My understanding is that no one else was in the room,” he said. “What my client is explaining to me about what happened and what’s being alleged are two entirely different things.”
A representative from the West Lawrence Care Center declined to comment.
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