Crime & Safety
Haverford Dementia Patient Allegedly Abused; 2 Charged
District Attorney of Delaware County Mike Green called the alleged abuse "humiliating." The conduct was caught on video obtained by Patch.
As reported by the Haverford-Havertown Patch on Wednesday, Haverford Police arrested two women in connection with an assault at a nursing home in which a dementia patient reportedly was forced to stand topless.
According to a police affidavit, Samirah Traynham, 22, of Yeadon, with two other coworkers at the Quadrangle Retirement/Nursing Home Facility on the 3300 block of Darby Road in Haverford, physically and verbally abused an elderly dementia patient.
Later in the day, Tyrina Griffin, a former employee of Quadrangle, was charged with "nearly identical" crimes, police said.
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Suspicious of nursing home workers, family members of the patient installed a hidden camera, or "nanny cam" in the room disguised as a clock. The affidavit indicates that three employees were filmed coercing the woman to remove her shirt and stand naked in March.
Read this full story at Haverford Patch. Click for a follow-up story on Griffin, and for a video review of the case.
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At a press conference, the Delaware County district attorney called the reported abuse "humiliating."
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