Silverado Elder Abuse Case

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Firstly, the various incidents of elder abuse occurred at an assisted living facility known as Silverado Senior Living . This particular story was initially articulated by Robert Faturechi in a Los Angeles Times Newspaper during 2010. The assisted living facility is in Calabasas California. This elder care facility has been recognized as a four star senior care establishment. Hench-forth the senior residents who resided there would pay seventy-five thousand dollars or more annually. The person who was the alleged perpetrator behind these heinous accusations of physically harming and torturing unsuspecting seniors was a former twenty-one year old male employee by the name of Ceasar Ulloa. There was one witness who had testified against Caesar Ulloa by …show more content…
The judge that proceeded over this trial reiterated that there was an unsettling pattern that the perpetrator seemed to portray during his involvement with these atrocious incidents. The perpetrator conspicuously demonstrated satisfaction during his direct involvement with assaulting senior people who resided at the Silverado Senior Living Institution. He was legally convicted by a :”Van Nuys jury who found him guilty on eight counts of torture and elder abuse in April 2010”(Faturechi 2010). Additionally Judge Martin Herscovitz proceeded over this case ultimately sentencing Ceasar Ulloa to six years in prison for the elder mistreatment. In addition Ceasar direct involvement with torturing various seniors at Silverado Senior Living would coincide with a mandated life sentence carried out in a high security prison …show more content…
There was one particular instance of elder abuse that unfortunately involved an elder resident by the name of Elmore Kittower who had unfortunately passed away at Silverado Senior Home during 2007 supposedly due to age related health concerns. The grieving wife Rita Kittower had received an anonymous phone call which reiterated that there was more evidence to support the notion that her recently deceased husband had not actually died due to natural causes. The anonymous person articulated that Rita's husband had been assailed to death allegedly by Ceasar Ulloa, who was a remedial employee at the same senior living facility that Elmore Kittower had resided at during the last year of his life. Additionally she was in disbelief at the startling prospect that her husband had unexpectedly passed away. She waited a few days to become recomposed and then gave the Los Angeles deputy sheriff permission to:” exhumed her deceased husband's body so that they could analyze it for any signs of visible trauma which was found, with signs of multiple broken bones at various stages of healing. An autopsy showed blunt force trauma as a contributing factor in his death”(Faturechi, 2010).

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