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Caught On Tape: Alleged Abuse Of 90-Year-Old
Woman Says Father Hit In Chest, Stomach, Arm
POSTED: 2:47 pm EDT August 15,
2007
UPDATED: 2:57 pm EDT August 15,
2007
BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore woman who said she videotaped her elderly father being abused by a home caregiver is fighting for justice, reported NBC Baltimore station WBAL-TV.
Jaki Taylor said she brought her 90-year-old father, John Taylor, home to be cared for after he had a series of strokes.She said she hired a caretaker but eventually found out that the woman she hired, Anastasia Olouch, was abusing him.Taylor said she knew because she had installed security cameras in her home that caught Olouch, 54, abusing her father on four different occasions."In the video you can see Olouch using her fist and hitting him in the chest, stomach and arm. When we looked back (to earlier video), she also had him on his side and was banging him in his temples and slapping him in the back of his head," Jaki Taylor said.John Taylor suffered two strokes and was unable to defend himself or communicate, his daughter said.Police arrested Olouch and a grand jury indicted her on multiple counts of assault, abuse of a vulnerable adult and reckless endangerment.She was set to stand trial on Aug. 8 but failed to appear, authorities said."The state would like to go forward with this, and we are asking the state to seek her via a warrant and bring her to justice," said Margaret Burns of the state attorney's office.Since the alleged abuse, John Taylor has suffered several brain seizures. Doctors couldn't say for sure if they were a direct result of the abuse, but Jaki Taylor said her father's health has deteriorated since the incident.She is asking that anyone who sees Olouch call police."This is a woman who sat in my dining room every day, supposedly reading the Bible. My God, what God was she serving? Not the one I know," Jaki Taylor said.She said that Olouch also had cared for children in Pennsylvania.According to court records, Olouch is a citizen of Kenya. Her last known address was in northeast Baltimore.Taylor said her father is now getting care in a nursing home facility.
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