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Elderly NYC woman, 95, beaten by home health aide in chilling video: ‘Could see her begging’
By Marie Pohl, Olivia Land, Deirdre Bardolf,
3 hours ago
A 95-year-old Harlem woman was allegedly viciously beaten by her home health aide, begging as she defended herself with a backscratcher, video of the incident shows — and her family is demanding answers.
Foye, who uses a walker and requires oxygen, struggled to defend herself as the aide struck her multiple times — including at least once with a metal pot from the kitchen, clips of the incident revealed.
A home health care aide was caught on video beating 95-year-old Dorothy Foye, leaving her injured and aching. J.C. Rice
She eventually fell to the floor.
Foye — a former home health care worker herself — called her daughter and granddaughters while she was being struck, telling them, “I love you” and then the call cut out, the family said.
When the terrified relatives reached her again, they heard screaming.
“I called the [aide] and she said everything was fine,” Tiffany Mitchell, 43, one of Foye’s granddaughters, told The Post.
Tiffany Mitchell said the aide’s beating reduced her grandmother to “a helpless baby.”
Foye’s family has since hired a new aide from a different agency, but they are demanding action against Medflyt at Home, a home healthcare service based out of Brooklyn, which sent the alleged attacker.
They said they experienced a string of inexperienced, careless aides from the company — including one who allegedly left in the middle of the night without telling anyone — and are now considering legal action.
“My grandmother is traumatized,” Michelle Mitchell said. “When the home attendant came in yesterday, she started screaming. She is in shock still.”
A neighbor said Foye was “a really nice person who was always helping people” and that her brutal attack shocked the entire neighborhood. Courtesy of Dorothy Foye
Terrence Weeks, 34, is a neighbor of Foye and said she used to babysit him when he was young.
“She is a really nice person who was always helping people,” he told The Post. “Everyone is shocked … the entire neighborhood knows.”
Medflyt has launched an internal investigation, as have the police, CBS reported.
Foye worked in private home care for years, her family told The Post. “And now that she needs someone to take care of her, this is what happened,” said Michelle Mitchell.
The NYPD investigation remains ongoing, a spokesperson told The Post Saturday. Medflyt did not return The Post’s request for a comment.
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