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Helen Lloyd of Delaware said she would take care of the 68-year-old, disabled man. So his family agreed to have him moved from Hillside Center nursing home where Lloyd was employed and into Lloyd’s home. As his caregiver, Lloyd received the man’s monthly Social Security checks. She agreed to use the money to pay for the man’s care and his share of the rent. But authorities later discovered Lloyd was horribly neglecting the man and taking his money for her own personal use, according to Delaware Online/The News Journal.

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The 75-year-old woman with diabetes and dementia who is recovering at the state-run Emily P. Bissell Hospital, a skilled nursing facility in Delaware, after fracturing her leg after a fall in January 2007, told her visiting nieces that staff members were mean to her. Those family members also noted signs of neglect in personal hygiene of their ailing aunt, and secretly installed a hidden video surveillance camera to keep watch on their aunt, according to Delaware Online. The $600 motion-sensitive video camera showed staff yelling and slapping the hands and face of the bedridden aunt while she pleaded for help.

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