No bail for couple charged with elder abuse

[eliza]

Bosco can I borrow your gun to shoot them :neutral:

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/946531--no-bail-for-couple-charged-with-elder-abuse?bn=1

A Toronto couple will spend at least two more weeks in police custody after being charged for what police describe as an extreme case of elder abuse. Kwong Yan, 43, and Qi Tan, 28, both of Toronto, were arrested on Feb. 25 and charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. They made brief court appearances Tuesday, and were remanded in custody for a court appearance on March 15.

Police found the 68-year-old victim in a non-insulated garage of a home near McCowan Rd. and Finch Ave. E. on Feb. 23. It is alleged that her son and daughter-in-law moved her into the garage of the large, two-storey corner house on Marrakesh Dr. in November. The woman was found unconscious, unresponsive and suffering from frostbite when paramedics responded to a 911 call. She was taken to hospital, where she remains in life-threatening condition after suffering a stroke.

Her skin was cold to the touch and her stomach was empty, police say. Det. Sgt. Mike Stones said the woman appears to suffer from dementia and was declared legally incompetent in the fall. Her son was named as her guardian. Since then, she has been living in “deplorable” conditions in the attached garage of her son’s home, said Stones.
Officers who investigated the room described being “taken aback” by the smell of urine.
Stones called the case one of the worst examples of elder abuse he has ever witnessed.

“I’m disgusted,” he said, adding the house has four bedrooms, two of which were vacant at the time. The woman had been sleeping on a mattress in the “makeshift bedroom,” Stones said. “When I say makeshift, I’m referring to two drywalled walls. The remaining walls are the cinder block concrete walls. The floor has some cheap flooring on top of concrete.”

“There is no running water, there is no fridge, no stove, no microwave. ”The only heating source is a “modified dryer vent” connected to a furnace inside the house, Stones said. To relieve herself, the woman was given a box of diapers and a port-a-potty. Her “washing facilities” consisted of a bucket of water. When she was found, the only food in the room was a piece of bread.

Stones said the woman had a room on the main floor until she was relocated to the garage around early November. He said her former room has been “converted for other uses” and now has a computer desk and some toys. Neighbours said they thought the family may have been operating a daycare and often saw small children coming and going.

There are also two tenants living in the house, one in the basement, Stones said.
According to Stones, the family is originally from mainland China but are now Canadian citizens.

 

[jamn]

Two less a day. The perps are lucky the police intervened before the old lady was more badly injured.

There might be breach of trust charges tacked on if they drained the old lady's savings account.

 

[Wayf]

Her own son too, what a slime bucket! Asians are normally very good with their elders, this clown deserves the book thrown at him and his wife.

 

[misha]

First thing that crossed my mind.

 

[ed031639]

Racist.

 

[future.mrs.mangum<3]

wow cheap muddafukers :shock:

 

[Pompal 09.]

That's not just cheap. That's heartless, mean and downright cruel.

 

[KB929]

I agree with Oagre. She must have insurance and were waiting for her to die.