Nursing home employees who sent Snapchat video of themselves mocking dead patients and torturing their bodies headed to prison

Three Oklahoma nursing location employees are headed to situation aft they recorded Snapchat videos of themselves playing with a female patient's pubic hair, showed respective radical going to the bath and adjacent mocked a dormant woman.

McKenzie Bolfa, 22, and Aubrey Granata, 23, were sentenced to a decennary down bars. Jade Williams, 23, is serving 12 years successful prison. They each pleaded blameworthy to elder maltreatment and conspiracy.

It happened astatine Golden Age Nursing Home successful Guthrie, astir 30 miles northbound of downtown Oklahoma City. Cops arrested the trio successful June 2024. The Guthrie Police Department started investigating 2 months earlier erstwhile a erstwhile worker and person of the suspects received a Snapchat from Williams showing Bolfa twisting the pubic hairsbreadth of a pistillate patient.

The caption said "give maine a mohawk," a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime said. Williams recorded the video with Granata successful the inheritance laughing.

Cops accidental the diligent was nude from the waist down and laic motionless. The idiosyncratic who received the video alerted nursing location administrators who successful crook called police.

Bolfa successful an interrogation with cops said she didn't cognize precisely wherefore they wanted to talk with her different than that she heard a rumor astir her completing perineal attraction connected a diligent who had gone to the bath connected herself. She claimed she did not cognize astir immoderate video of the incident. Bolfa said she enlisted the assistance of Williams and Granata to cleanable the diligent up.

When asked astir her twisting the woman's pubic hair, Bolfa said she was conscionable cleaning up fecal matter. Bolfa besides said if she was laughing it was due to the fact that her and the diligent were joking around. She insisted that patients would cognize they were being photographed if determination were immoderate pictures taken of her successful the nursing home.

But cops didn't bargain her explanation.

"They had excuses for immoderate of their behavior, but it didn't truly lucifer up with the grounds that we had uncovered," Guthrie Police Chief Don Sweger told section NBC affiliate KFOR.

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Cops looked astatine each 3 of the suspects' phones and recovered much disturbing videos. Several showed patients going to the bathroom, including 1 that showed a close-up of a resident's genitals and different wherever a woman's bosom was exposed, the affidavit said. One allegedly depicts Williams pulling down the patient's pants, exposing her diaper. Detectives besides uncovered a photograph of Bolfa laying connected furniture adjacent to a dormant diligent with her rima unfastened wide, mimicking the woman's facial expression, according to the affidavit.

"It's astir apt 1 of the saddest things," Sweger told KFOR. "We instrumentality work to everybody precise responsibly, but particularly for those who don't person a dependable for themselves."

The nursing location released the pursuing connection to section media outlets:

Golden Age Nursing Home endeavors to guarantee the information and well-being of its residents. Upon receiving accusation related to definite allegations against its employees, the installation began moving with section instrumentality enforcement and different due authorities to respond. The employees progressive had cleared inheritance checks, were educated related to resident's rights/safety and person been terminated from employment. We are committed to protecting the privateness and information of the residents and families progressive and volition proceed to support them updated with immoderate developments related to this matter.

Bolfa and Granata were sentenced connected Tuesday portion Williams learned her destiny past year. The 3 are besides facing civilian lawsuits connected behalf of the victims.