Family of NJ nursing home patient demands answers after she was brutally attacked

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey (WABC) — A nursing residence in New Jersey has been the scene of a latest homicide and a brutal assault. In each circumstances, a affected person attacked one other.

Eyewitness Information spoke completely with the members of the family of on one of many victims as they seek for solutions to what occurred.

Audrey Fish, 76, has one bloody eye socket and one other that’s badly bruised. She additionally has six stitches on her brow.

Allen Fish is her son.

“I used to be offended the way in which my mom was overwhelmed,” he stated.

His mom has dementia and is a resident on the AristaCare Nursing Residence in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

He stated two weeks in the past he received a name from the house telling him his mom went to the emergency room.

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“The nurse on the ground, she advised me that one other resident was in her room, they usually assumed she hit her with the cane,” stated Sonja Holloway-Fish, the daughter-in-law of the sufferer.

The couple stated that after that dialog, nobody from the house reached out to them.

4 days later after numerous makes an attempt, they stated directors lastly agreed to satisfy.

“We have been afraid. We did not even know what the state of affairs was with the resident that they claimed had did this to her,” Holloway-Fish stated.

However that assembly left them with extra issues. The couple wished assurances this would not occur once more however there stated there was no dialogue about any modifications to safety and that the assailant was nonetheless within the residence.

“They advised us she was nonetheless there and have been in shock,” Holloway-Fish stated.

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The couple stated they even have been advised there have been no witnesses, suggesting there was no proof of an assault. However on the evening of the assault, the nursing residence referred to as the police, and it filed a police report for aggravated assault.

This wasn’t the primary time an incident like this has occurred at this nursing residence.

Simply days earlier, a resident was assaulted by one other resident. She died days later.

A number of calls looking for a response from the house weren’t returned.

Eyewitness Information reporter CeFaan Kim tried to stroll in to get their aspect in individual however was advised to depart and that the messages had been acquired.

“I do not need them to have a dementia unit,” Holloway-Fish stated. “They don’t seem to be geared up.”

Allen Fish stated his mom is a sort soul and a giving individual.

“She’s all the time been there for us,” he stated. “Only a nurturing mother.”

Within the meantime, the household is attempting to maneuver their mother to a distinct nursing residence as quickly as potential.

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