Charged with 20 criminal counts of “theft and receiving stolen property” from the elderly residents in the nursing home where she was employed, a former employee pled guilty in the Pennsylvania County Common Pleas Court. She indicated to the Judge that she thought “it was in her best interest to plead guilty” to the charges that ranged from stealing money and jewelry, to writing forged checks on two residents’ accounts and pocketing the money.
The woman committed the thefts during a four-month period in 2016. The thefts were discovered by nursing home administrators who notified the police that they suspected the woman. The police confronted the woman about the thefts and she admitted to forging the two resident’s names on the checks, but she said she had only done so because the residents requested it. The jewelry she took from the residents included-wedding rings, earrings and religious items-all of which she pawned. One of the checks she forged was for $400.
The woman will be sentenced in three months; and, in the meantime, is out of jail on a bail bond.
