Earlier this week, on Tuesday, two caretakers working at the Arkadelphia Human Development Center entered guilty pleas to charges of abusing an incapacitated individual.
According to the announcement, Alissa Rivera, 27, from Arkadelphia, and Princess Dansby, 42, from Preston, pushed clients who had intellectual and developmental problems. As a result of the shove, the individual that Rivera pushed fell and broke her ankle.
Rivera entered a guilty plea to a felony count of abuse of an endangered or intoxicated person, while Dansby entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor count of the same act. Both defendants were charged with a similar offense. According to the papers made available by the court, both pleas were entered in the Clark County Circuit Court.
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In the course of the inquiry, agents from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Attorney General’s Office participated.
“Abuse of this kind is despicable and intolerable,” Griffin said in the release as he released the statement.
Specifically, the statement indicates that Rivera was given a sentence of five years of probation, a fine of $1,000 in addition to court costs, the requirement to enroll in a class on anger management, and the requirement to complete one hundred hours of community service. Dansby was given a punishment that included a suspended sentence of ninety days in jail, a fine of five hundred dollars, and the requirement that he perform twenty hours of community service.
Source: arkansasonline.com