Caregiver caught on camera

Dontia Shawnra Arrington, 26, was charged after the video above showed her beating up a 93-year-old woman with dementia. This took place in the patients room. A family member noticed bruises on the woman, so they installed a nanny cam, and then they busted the younger woman beating their elderly family member like a thug.

You can see Dontia Shawnra Arrington beating the woman with what may be a soiled diaper, and then possibly tried to choke the dementia woman, but it’s unclear what her hand was doing in the video. It’s possibly a chokehold, according to Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson. WNEM quoted him in a crime news report:

In the video, Arrington began to get rough with the victim after she had an accident, Swanson said, adding Arrington then beat the victim with a soiled diaper and attempted to choke her with her right hand.

“You see the vulnerability of the victim and the fact that she’s getting hit with a 2 to 3 pound soiled diaper. But if that isn’t enough, when she brought her hand across her throat in a chokehold, that can kill people. Especially a 93-year-old,” Swanson said.

Swanson said the elder abuse task force was contacted and because of the progressive and proactive demonstration of videotaping the incident, investigators were able to put together the case based on what they saw in the video.

“I was appalled, I was disgusted, and I was very angry,” Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said about the video. “And I said to Chief Assistant Phillips, ‘We’re gonna have to charge this woman as harshly as we can.’”

Dontia Shawnra Arrington was charged with first degree vulnerable adult abuse (up to 15 years), torture with intent to cause cruel or extreme punishment or mental pain and suffering (up to life in prison), and assault with intent to cause great bodily harm less than murder or by strangulation (up to 10 years).