Nursing home worker charged with abuse

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Nursing home worker charged with abuse

By Kyle Bosch

Story Created: Aug 19, 2008

Story Updated: Aug 19, 2008

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A former employee of a Carthage nursing home
is charged with felony elder abuse.

Nurse assistant Dennis Rowe is accused of hitting an elderly resident in the groin and face, and forcing water into his nasal passages and lungs through his oxygen tubing to the point of choking him.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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