VIDEO:
84-year-old beaten by nurse at upmarket care home
May 19,
2015 |by A4W News
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When Hope
Shepherd’s family moved her into an upmarket care home in East
London, they thought she would be cared for.
However,
when Shepherd’s daughter, Bernice Robertson, began noticing bruising, and an
unexplained broken arm, she took matters into her own hands. She set up a
hidden camera in her mother’s room, and what she caught on camera shocked her
to the core.
In the
video below, a nurse is seen giving a brutal beating to Hope Shepherd –
slapping, punching and kicking her. The footage was filmed in late February
this year at the facility which costs up to R14,000 per month.
The
84-year-old woman is suffering from cancer and can’t speak or write, so she had
no way of communicating what was happening to her.
Charge of
assault
Robertson
immediately reported nurse Ncediswa Mkenkcele (40) to the police station,
laying a charge of assault. When confronted by employers at the Lily Kirchmann
Complex, Mkenkcele promptly resigned.
She was
arrested on March 23 and appeared in court on 5 May and was charged with
assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. She was not asked to plead
and was released on warning. The case was postponed until June 5 for further
investigation.
Footage
of assault
The
footage of the assault was published by the Daily Despatch on Monday, 18 May: