Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following statement:
Hinds County Resident Going to Jail for Assault of a Vulnerable Person
Jackson, Miss.- Belinthia Ross, 32, of Jackson, has been sentenced Monday to prison for simple assault of a vulnerable person, announced Attorney General Jim Hood.
Ross was convicted by a Rankin County Jury on December 8. Rankin County Circuit Court Judge William E. Chapman III sentenced Ross to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and ordered her to pay $801 in court costs.
The Attorney General’s investigation showed that Ross hit an 83 year old female resident of a local nursing home. As a result of the assault, the victim was unconscious and bruised.
This case was investigated by Jake Windham and was prosecuted by Special Assistant Attorneys General Sue Perry and Garland Lyell of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
9 comments:
Should have given her life. There is not a reason for a person to hit an elderly woman.
The assaulter was black; the victim was white. If the races had been reversed, the woman committing the assault would have been convicted of a hate crime.
Luckily there must have been a witness. More often than not, there is no witness. Same is true of centers that house youth psychiatric patients. Those places are true dens of mistreatment.
It's only a hate crime if the victim is black
When will people learn? It is impossible for a black to commit a hate crime.
This is not a race issue. It's a control issue and an issue of people in positions of perceived power who rarely graduated from high school, much less have a semester of JuCo.
This goes on more than you might think. Usually they get away with it. The poor elderly victim often has a hard time to verbalize, so these so called health providers keep doing these assaults because no one sees them. Some of them just get a "rise" out of having power over someone who is disabled...others are just plain mean.
Other side is...these elderly people can be aggravating, not cooperating and so on. They are usually senile. The caregivers are supposed to understand and be trained to take care of these elderly incidents, not easy but SAFETY AND CARE absolutely must be upheld.
8:51 - What do you mean 'not easy'? You seem to imply that it's really difficult to not slap a resident, or it's hard to do your job with the annoyance of a grumpy patient with dementia.
Simple. It's indeed easy if you take your job seriously and follow the job requirements/expectations that you signed when hired.
If you can't do the job do not take the money. Very simple, find another job more in line with your work habits. I hear car jacking can be a money maker and would be more in her line of work habits.
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