Two teens accused of kissing and twerking on elderly dementia patient

Two Minnesota teenage girls face criminal charges for allegedly twerking on and kissing an elderly dementia patient at a hospital where they worked.

Security cameras at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Dawson, Minnesota allegedly caught the teens, who are around 17 years old, abusing the vulnerable woman while she sat in a chair in a facility lounge in May for around 30 minutes, according to a report on the incident from the Minnesota Department of Health.

The girls, whose names have not been released due to their age, will be charged as juveniles with abusing a vulnerable adult, a gross misdemeanor.

According to the MDH report, one of the girls danced in “a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance [twerking] in front of the resident and pulled up her shirt, exposing her lower back” to the resident,” Fox 9 reported.

At another point in the video, one of the teens leans in and kisses the woman on the lips while the other snapped a photo, at which they “boisterously” laughed, according to the MHD report.

Police said that one of the girls pulled up her shirt over her bra in front of the resident, as the other shot foam balls at her with a toy gun, hitting her in the head, according to the outlet.

Towards the end of the footage, one of the girls sat on the resident’s lap and bounced up and down, the report said.

The MHD report concluded the teen workers “treated the resident in a manner which a reasonable person would find derogatory, humiliating or harassing.”

The teenage girls
The teenage girls will be charged as juveniles with abusing a vulnerable adult.
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The video was discovered when a maintenance employee was reviewing security footage for an unrelated incident, Fox 9 reported.

The teens were fired two days after the footage was discovered. They had each worked at the hospital for less than one year.

The patient has died since the incident due to unrelated causes.

“This whole episode has been devastating for the family, knowing this happened to their mother before she died,” Assistant Lac Qui Parle County Prosecutor Lori Buchheim told FOX 9. 

One of the girls appeared in court last week and confessed, but did not seem remorseful, Buccheim said.

The girls will likely not serve time in juvie and will more likely be placed on probation and sentenced to community service, according to Buchheim.

Johnson Memorial Health Services CEO Stacey Lee said this was an “isolated incident.”

“It breaks the hearts of our staff and our whole organization when any patient or resident has a poor experience on our premises,” Lee said in a statement to Fox 9.

source: nypost.com