Arthur Cropsey Case Study

The story of Arthur Cropsey is only one of the many cases of elder abuse. But this case was different from others because Arthur’s sister reported the financial abuse made by her own daughter. During the interview, Anne did not indicate for how long his brother was alone in the home after his wife died. But it was obviously that Arthur was alone for several months because she observed many checks and bills in the house when she saw him for the first time. This result that Arthur suffered self-neglect and abandonment abuse at the beginning because he could not perform self-care due to his dementia and did not have caregiver who could take care of his daily needs. Fortunately, his sister noticed that he needed help when he did not answer her calls and she decided to take him to live with her. Nevertheless, Arthur was still a victim of another type of abuse. This time Arthur was a victim of financial abuse by her niece, Linda Lyons. Linda took advantage of her mother’s trust to waste her uncle’s money. Anne Franklin again did not mention for how long Linda used her uncle’s money but she commented that her daughter used at least $70,000 and the court found that Linda wrote a will and became the power of attorney for her uncle. All these …show more content…
The Controversial theory explains that “crimes are committed by anyone that has the opportunity to do it” (Bresee, 2017). In this case, Linda saw the opportunity to take her uncle’s money when she saw her uncle’s statement. She was surprised by the amount of money that he had in his power despite of his mental illness. Linda offered to take care of her uncle’s bills so that she could have accessed to the money. She also saw the opportunity that her mother trusted her and she thought that her mother would not discover the fraud or report to the authorities. Other factors leading to the abuse also included (Bresee,