'PUNCH HER IN THE FACE': Three women accused of running elderly fighting ring
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A North Carolina assisted living facility was allegedly turned into a real-life fight club back in June.
Three women were arrested and charged earlier this month after police allege elderly female patients with dementia were encouraged to fight one another, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 26, and Tonacia Yvonne Tyson, 20, were charged with assaulting an individual with a disability, while Marilyn Latish McKey, 32, was charged with two counts of assaulting an individual with a disability.
All three were fired in June when assault allegations surfaced at Danby House, an assisted living and memory care facility in Winston-Salem, N.C., after police received a report of abuse.
“When you’re talking about someone who can’t take care of themselves, we’ve got to give specific attention to that,” officer Gregory Dorn, with the Winston-Salem Police Department, told FOX8.
According to documents from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, one patient was pushed into another resident’s room to fight while three employees – identified by police as Tyson, McKey and Jordan – yelled and encouraged one of the women to brawl. One staff member also recorded the incident.
In the video, one patient is seen hitting the other in the room, and then started choking her. One staff member then told the woman choking the other to “punch her in the face,” according to the NCDHHS documents.
The elderly woman that was choked was involved in another altercation, according to documents. Tyson, McKey and Jordan were all present, according to police, when the woman pushed another resident to the ground. The resident on the floor was left there until the other resident was shoved forcefully into her room by one staff member and shut off the lights and told her to go to sleep.
The NCDHHS has barred Danby House from admitting new residents until multiple issues with patient care are addressed.
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