# Aides accused of posting humiliating videos of elderly patients **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/727730 "2015-08-13T11:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/727730/1 "2015-08-13T11:40:04Z")
How fucking pointless and cruel is this? > **[Aides accused of posting humiliating videos of elderly patients](https://www.wcvb.com/article/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/8225484)** > > Two nurses' aides from Lowell have been charged with posting humiliating videos of their elderly nursing home patients online. > [@](#): > > Two nurses’ aides from Lowell have been charged with posting humiliating videos of their elderly nursing home patients online. > … > Prosecutors said the videos posted on Snapchat show patients ranging in age from 75 to 99 at the Wingate at Belvidere nursing home in Lowell. > > Prosecutors said an 86-year-old woman was shown fully dressed on a toilet, being asked by one of the aides about her sex life and if she smoked marijuana. They said another video shows Costa climbing in bed with a 99-year-old woman and telling her she loves her while the woman asks to be left alone. > > Police and the nursing home began investigating after someone reported the Snapchat posts in late July. Police said Lopez told them she and Costa were joking around. Joking around? What motivates people to do things like this? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/727730/2 "2015-08-13T11:49:48Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > What motivates people to do things like this? Power. It corrupts, don’t ya know? And having power over a bunch of elderly folks who have little or no recourse to protest (even if they are capable of such and not mentally disabled due to age) can bring out the worst. Notwithstanding, these fuckers should have their knees crushed with ball-peen hammers. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/727730/3 "2015-08-13T11:56:16Z")
Speaking of ball-peen hammer justice, that link sent my phone on an endless series of redirects to the App Store. No jury (of my iPhone peers) would convict me. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/727730/4 "2015-08-13T12:01:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Speaking of ball-peen hammer justice, that link sent my phone on an endless series of redirects to the App Store. No jury (of my iPhone peers) would convict me. Sorry about the link. I’m working from a laptop. I assume the site is trying to send you to their mobile page or something and is coded badly. Here’s a supposedly mobile link. [Aides accused of posting humiliating videos of elderly patients](http://m.wcvb.com/news/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/34664002) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aides-accused-of-posting-humiliating-videos-of-elderly-patients/727730/6 "2015-10-12T10:04:24Z")
Reported.