Posted on 10/14/2014 7:59:24 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Hospice worker who 'fondled and sodomized' nursing home patients escapes jail because his victims died or had dementia and couldn't testify
A hospice worker accused of fondling and sodomizing elderly patients had rape, sodomy and sexual assault charges against him dropped because the victims had died or succumbed to Alzheimer's and couldn't testify.
Walter Javier Martinez, 45, had been facing felony charges in connection with numerous episodes of sexual abuse while working at three St Louis-area nursing homes as an employee of Odyssey Hospice.
The charges were replaced with four misdemeanor counts of elder abuse, to which Martinez pleaded guilty. A one-year sentence was suspended by the judge, who put Martinez on two years' probation.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the assaults first came to light after Martinez admitted to a therapist that he had inappropriately touched patients while bathing them.
His supervisor called state authorities after Martinez confessed to fondling women under his care, one a 99-year-old woman at Sunrise Assisted Living in Chesterfield.
At the other elder care facility, Bethesda Meadow in Ellisville, Martinez's 80-year-old victim was not coherent enough to give a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Wow, St. Louis and the St. Louis area are hardly shining in the news of late, are they?
One of our many little pieces of the 4th world.
More of a third world country.
This monster deserves a slow, painful death. Blowtorches and pliers time.
He admits to it yet escapes jail time.
Then a judge suspends even a lousy one year sentence.
Sorry to any StL freepers but I’m hoping that they keep losing their games. New candidate for city of evil?
That he beat the felony charges is sad, but a necessary consequence of the victims' inability to testify. But that the judge didn't give him the maximum sentence on the misdemeanor charges he admitted to is an outrage.
yep.
“You say you want to a devolution, well you know... “
Murder victims can’t testify either yet we can still put murderers in jail.
one can hope alternate means of justice are more successful.
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