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I just caught this being reported on North West Tonight and was disgusted. Just when I thought he was about to tell us they got community orders or fined... - 12 months in prison for one and 13 months in a Young Offenders Institute for another.
Chuffed, nothing less than these horrors deserve. Bullying people with dementia, can you be any more of a tit?
Some faith in the system restored.
Two women who tortured dementiapatients’ ‘comfort dolls’ have been jailed in a landmark legal case.
Shauna Higgin, 20, and Victoria Johnson, 23, posted video clips online showing them harming the dolls used as therapy for patients.
The cruel pair admitted two counts of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting OAPs with dementia in their care .
The dolls are used to help elderly residents who become attached to them and care for them like their own babies.
Images showed Higgin and Johnson boiling a doll in a pot, placing it in a tumble dryer and even hanging one by its neck.
In one video mum-of-one Higgin could be heard shouting, ‘Die, baby, die’ while flinging a doll to the floor as Johnson filmed.
Shauna Higgins leaving an earlier hearing(Photo: Manchester Evening News)
Two women arrested after allegations dementia patients were tormented by 'comfort doll' abuse
A photo titled Tug of War shows Higgin pulling the doll off one distressed elderly woman who holds on with her hands to stop it being snatched away.
Higgin was jailed for 13 months, Johnson for 12 months after admitting two counts of wilful neglect or ill treatment of elderly residents between December 1 and 26 last year.
Johnson is now receiving counselling for depression (Photo: Manchester Evening News)
The video shows Higgin dragging the doll off a distressed woman (Photo: Manchester Evening News)
It is believed to be one of the first cases to be prosecuted under new legislation brought in last year targeted specifically at care workers who mistreat patients or residents.
Both women pleaded guilty and wept in the dock as Judge Andrew Lockwood said they were ‘bullies’ whose victims could not fight back.
He said the pair treated the residents at Middleton’s Ashbourne House Nursing Home in north Manchester as ‘play-things’.
Higgin drags the doll along the care home corridor (Photo: Manchester Evening News)
Judge Andrew Lowcock sent them down.
Passing sentence, he said: “When families take the difficult decision to place loved ones in a care home they expect the bare minimum that loved ones will be treated with dignity and respect.
Cruel carer who taunted dementia patients by 'torturing' their comfort dolls is named and pictured
“You treated them as playthings, as the butt of your tasteless jokes, your behaviour bullied and your victims could not fight back. These cruel offences can only be met with custodial sentences.”
The 29-bed home run by Silverdale Care Homes is now in special measures after critical reports following visits by Care Quality Commission inspectors rated its services inadequate.
Manchester Minshull Street crown court was told all members of staff were told they were not allowed to film or take pictures of residents without permission from residents or their families.
The doll was hung from a tree by its neck(Photo: Manchester Evening News)
The cruel pair put the 'comfort doll' in the washing machine (Photo: Manchester Evening News)
Higgin and Johnson took pictures and posted them to a Whatsapp group - as well as a video that contained other members of staff from the home.
The court was told one picture showed a resident, described as being in ‘final steps’ of dementia, having the doll snatched off her and was sent with the caption ‘tug of war’.
The resident’s daughter said the doll was ‘something tangible she can care for’.
A doctor has said the resident would have suffered mental torment from the event.
It was also 'boiled' in a pot (Photo: Manchester Evening News)
The pair worked with Ashbourne House Nursing Home in Middleton, north Manchester (Photo: MEN)
John Marsh, mitigating for Higgen, said her behaviour had been “immature” and she had received death threats after the case was reported by the media.
Steven Sullivan, for Johnson, said she was now receiving counselling for depression, adding: “This offence was borne out of immaturity, thoughtlessness and irresponsibility, but not of malice.”
Judge Lowcock ordered prison authorities to keep a watch on Johnson as she begins her time in jail.
I just caught this being reported on North West Tonight and was disgusted. Just when I thought he was about to tell us they got community orders or fined... - 12 months in prison for one and 13 months in a Young Offenders Institute for another.
Chuffed, nothing less than these horrors deserve. Bullying people with dementia, can you be any more of a tit?
Some faith in the system restored.
