A dying patient Snapchat video allegedly made by three nursing home workers has led to charges against the women in Georgia, WSB-TV reported Sunday.
Jorden Lanah Bruce, 21, of Jefferson; Mya Janai Moss, 21, of Colbert; and Lizeth Jocelyn Cervantes Ramirez, 19, of Jefferson, were arrested June 22 and all charged with exploiting an elderly and disabled person for allegedly making the video in the room of the dying woman titled "The End," Jefferson police told the television station.
Bruce, Moss, and Cervantes Ramirez worked at the Bentley Senior Living Facility in Jefferson, Georgia, when they allegedly made the video in a patient's room inside the facility, police told WSB-TV.
The patient, 76, had suffered a stroke and the workers were waiting for a hospice nurse while they filmed the Snap story, police said, according to WSB-TV. The women were in charge of monitoring the patient but instead allegedly created the video, authorities told WXIA-TV.
"One of them was smoking a vape pen," a Jefferson Police Department detective told WSB-TV. "They were using profanities and (making obscene hand gestures) at the camera."
WXIA-TV wrote that another employee saw the video and reported the incident.
A Jefferson police spokesman told the Athens Banner-Herald that patients in that condition are supposed to be closely monitored.
"They were completely ignoring her and posting the Snapchat video," the police spokesman said, according to the newspaper.
The Banner-Herald reported that Bruce and Moss were released on bond after their arrest. Cervantes Ramirez was being held for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as of Friday afternoon, the newspaper said.
The National Center on Elder Abuse reported that in 2014, 14,258 of approximately 188,599 complaints from long-term care and nursing homes reported to ombudsman programs involved abuse, gross neglect, or exploitation.
The center stated that a May 2008 study conducted by the U.S. General Accountability Office suggested that those figures from state surveys may be understating problems in licensed long-term and nursing care facilities.
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