The daughter of an elderly dementia patient, who was allegedly beaten to a pulp by another resident at a care facility in Sydney\u2019s southwest, has hit back after the facility\u2019s manager issued an apology.<\/p>\n
Disturbing images of the 87-year-old man reveal the extent of the horrific injuries to his face, which is bloodied and bruised and depicts blood pouring from an ear.<\/p>\n
The alleged incident happenedin the garden area of Hammond Care\u2019s Linden Cottage at Hammondville about 9pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Another resident at the care centre, a 69-year-old man, was arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV).<\/p>\n
The 69-year-old was taken to hospital, where he remains under police guard. <\/p>\n
He was refused bail at a bedside hearing at court on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Speaking to 2GB\u2019s Ben Fordham on Friday, Hammond Care executive general manager Jenny Somerton said she was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the alleged attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never want to see any of our residents in any kind of harm or in any state in any way and that was really distressing, not just to me but to all of our staff involved as well,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
She said the facility catered to patients with \u201cextreme and severe behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said the patients were all supervised by staff and \u201cdifferent monitoring systems\u201d,<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have people with extreme behaviours and unfortunately, things can happen and triggers can happen with different people which can exacerbate different behaviours whilst we\u2019re supporting them,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
The 87-year-old\u2019s daughter, Margaret, then joined the call and asked about the safeguards used at the facility on the day of the alleged attack.<\/p>\n
Despite implementing security systems to prevent incidents, Ms Somerton said she could not discuss any further details. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are reviewing all of our monitoring systems so that we can then really understand truly what actually happened on the night,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Ms Somerton said the care facility was not understaffed at the time of the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment we meet all of our requirements,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
When asked if Margaret was \u201csatisfied\u201d with the manager\u2019s apology, she said: \u201cNo. Absolutely not.\u201d <\/p>\n
On Wednesday Margaret told 2GB astaff member told her that her father was found bloodied on a veranda after an altercation with another resident. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanted to send him to the hospital and told mum, \u2018No need to come, we\u2019re going to put him in the ambulance\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother, who\u2019s 85, insisted that they wait until she arrived to join my father in the ambulance. Dad has dementia. <\/p>\n
\u201cMum arrived and of course she was shocked to see the state of my father. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe joined him in the ambulance and was taken to the Liverpool Hospital, where he still remained in the emergency room being treated.\u201d<\/p>\n
A police spokesman said inquiries were under way into the alleged assault of a man at an aged-care facility in Sydney\u2019s southwest.<\/p>\n
A crime scene has been established at the facility, where detectives and forensic officers are examining the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers attached to Liverpool City Police Area Command commenced an investigation after receiving a report that an 87-year-old man was found with facial injuries at the Hammondville facility about 9pm Wednesday,\u201d NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man was taken to Liverpool Hospital suffering head and facial injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are working with staff at the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hammond Care has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The daughter of an elderly dementia patient, who was allegedly beaten to a pulp by another resident at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,187436],"class_list":["post-745777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-newswire-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}