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One of the young women accused this week of taking nude photos of residents of a Virginia nursing home without their consent has told news station WSLS that she is innocent of any wrongdoing. Livia Crisan, 25, turned herself in to police on Thursday after talking with WSLS reporter Lindsey Ward. Crisan, a nursing assistant, told the reporter she did photograph a man in her care, but he was fully clothed at the time.

WSLS began investigating reports of a crime at Waddell Nursing and Rehab facility earlier this week, after they learned Galax police were investigating multiple nursing home abuse claims at the facility. Initially, nursing home administrators told the reporter that there was evidence some residents’ rights had been violated. The TV station later learned that those violations involved pornographic images of the residents taken without their knowledge.

Police also have arrested former nursing home worker Sharon Walker. Both women were charged with two counts of “knowingly and intentionally videotaping or photographing a nonconsenting person who was 18 years of age or older when such person was nude or in the state of undress without the person’s permission.”

Crisan told WSLS reporter Lindsey Ward that nursing home facility staff questioned her about the photo she took using her cell phone, of the man in her care. She says she showed the photo to nursing home staff and they deleted it, and she was sent back to work.

Crisan told the reporter, “I want people to know that I did nothing wrong.”

The case is currently under investigation by the Galax Police Department.

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