After a week-long jury trial in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, a former nurse’s aide was found guilty Friday of nursing home patient abuse for striking a patient with mental health problems at a local nursing home where she worked.
Tacarra Bryson, 31, of 10 Southard Ave. is to be sentenced May 15 by Judge Gary Cook on the charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison. After deliberating for nearly seven hours Thursday and Friday, the jury found Bryson guilty of punching a patient in the head while the patient was being restrained on the floor at Liberty West Nursing Center, 2051 Collingwood Blvd.Nurse’s aide convicted of abusing patient - Toledo Blade:
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