Disturbing Video Shows 95YO Grandmother Assaulted By Home Aide Beastie In Harlem

[Sugar Cookie]

A video obtained by Eyewitness News shows a 95-year-old woman being assaulted by a home health aide in Harlem this past weekend.

The incident happened on July 21 after the home health aide was sent to take care of the woman who uses a walker and needs an oxygen tank.

The video -- caught on the victim's Nest camera -- showed the aide whacking her with a pan and also hitting her repeatedly until she collapsed to the floor.

The victim's granddaughter, Michelle Mitchell was in New Jersey, but she was watching the ordeal on her phone as it happened because the family installed cameras in her grandma's apartment.

"It was so unreal to me, that someone could punch somebody like they were beating them down," added Mitchell.

The victim suffered bruises is sore and can't lift her arms from the attack. Doctors say they are also worried about possible blood clots.

"We're doing an internal investigation, alongside the New York City Police Department, and are cooperating with authorities," Medflyt at Home Health Care Agency said in a statement to Eyewitness News.

Police are looking for the health aide worker.

'A nightmare' - Disturbing video shows 95-year-old grandmother assaulted by home aide in Harlem

The video, caught on the victim's Nest camera, showed the aide whacking her with a pan and also hitting her repeatedly until she collapsed to the floor.

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The agency knows who they sent - they should release her name and image so the public can help locate her.

 

[Busy Bee]

This “.home health aide” should be charged to the full extent of the law! The license she has should be revoked, she should never be allowed to “care” for anyone else . Thats probably not the first time she’s assaulted a patient!

 

[cubby]

Here a "home health aide" is anybody that can pass a background check, that is if they even run one.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Here a "home health aide" is anybody that can pass a background check, that is if they even run one.

Here too, sadly.

A lot of the bio-mother's who had active cases for abuse/neglect were home health aides.

 

[the cat did it]

I positively HATE the abuse of the elderly just as much as I hate the abuse of a child or innocent animal. Elderly people are AWESOME I think, I love'em, got a soft spot in my heart for them. Even the hard mean ornery ones, I actually find those to be hysterical! And for me my Grandma was the SHIT. She's never left me, her ashes reside on my mantle, till we can meet and embrace again. They have lived their lives, they have paid their dues (most anyway) and deserve nothing less than respect, dignity, care and reverence. You care for them with "kid gloves" but never mistake them for a child or treat them as such. Some may need care as a child does and that is fine, they deserve nothing but care and respect, remember, many of us will be in that exact same position one day if we should live so long. One day our bodies will be frail, very far from what it use to be, our bones brittle, our muscles weak, organs not working at full speed, pain and stiffness, a brain that may be muddled with memories with holes OR a brain still sharp as a tack but stuck in a body with a brain still so young "at heart" but a heart and body that is so much older and failing, every day, every second. We need to care for our elders, we need to mind our elders, they and other elders past have paved the way thus far, and we ourselves one day will be elders who also continued to pave the way for the human race and leave our children behind to continue on with the knowledge that has been handed down generation after generation-each one adding a bit more to the story, each generation to further try and understand and shape humanity and our future.

 

[runninfawn]

I positively HATE the abuse of the elderly just as much as I hate the abuse of a child or innocent animal. Elderly people are AWESOME I think, I love'em, got a soft spot in my heart for them. Even the hard mean ornery ones, I actually find those to be hysterical! And for me my Grandma was the SHIT. She's never left me, her ashes reside on my mantle, till we can meet and embrace again. They have lived their lives, they have paid their dues (most anyway) and deserve nothing less than respect, dignity, care and reverence. You care for them with "kid gloves" but never mistake them for a child or treat them as such. Some may need care as a child does and that is fine, they deserve nothing but care and respect, remember, many of us will be in that exact same position one day if we should live so long. One day our bodies will be frail, very far from what it use to be, our bones brittle, our muscles weak, organs not working at full speed, pain and stiffness, a brain that may be muddled with memories with holes OR a brain still sharp as a tack but stuck in a body with a brain still so young "at heart" but a heart and body that is so much older and failing, every day, every second. We need to care for our elders, we need to mind our elders, they and other elders past have paved the way thus far, and we ourselves one day will be elders who also continued to pave the way for the human race and leave our children behind to continue on with the knowledge that has been handed down generation after generation-each one adding a bit more to the story, each generation to further try and understand and shape humanity and our future.

so very well said and becoming elderly seems to happen in a blink of the eye one day you look at your kids and say "my gosh when did my kids get old" especially if you are still young at heart it is scary to see your kids at retirement or close to retirement age ...

 

[cubby]

My older son is a grandpa now, like how does that happen when yesterday he was in high school and playing baseball?

 

[Freyja]

Dude, I would be asking that 95-year-old about how they did stuff like growing victory gardens, canning, and how they preserved stuff like meat. I would have lots of great conversations with her over tea and pinwheel sandwiches. That generation survived the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression. I would pick her brain and gather as much knowledge as I could.