Crime & Safety
Nursing Assistant Indicted for Assaulting Elderly Woman
Lesser charges have been issued against Timothy Morrissey of Manchester after incident at nursing home in October.
New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announces on Dec. 2, 2015, that Timothy Morrissey of Manchester has been indicted on alternative charges of simple assault and abuse of a facility patient by a Hillsborough County Grand Jury.
The indictments, according to a press statement, allege that Morrissey, while working as a Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) at Bel-Air Nursing Home and Rehab Center in Goffstown knowingly caused unprivileged physical contact to a 79-year-old resident with dementia and willfully mistreated that resident on October 31, 2015.
Both charges are misdemeanors that are subject to enhanced penalties under RSA 651:6, I(d), carrying a maximum sentence of 2-5 years in state prison. Mr. Morrissey will be arraigned in Hillsborough Superior Court North on Dec. 18, 2015.
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