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'I Touch Little Girls': NJ Home Health Aide Arrested In Staten Island Man's Murder
A New Jersey woman was charged with killing a Staten Island man in her care months after his body was found with the words "I touch little girls" written on his bare chest. Rene Ayarde, 28, of Jersey City, was arrested Monday in connection with the July 19 killing of Robert Raynor, 80, the NY Daily News reports. She had been working as his home health aide, news reports say. Six hours before Raynor's body was found in a first-floor hallway of his home, Ayarde was arrested on accusations she assaulted her 3-year-old daughter, the outlet said. The girl was hospitalized with a bruised neck an…
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Bloomfield Parents: Nurse Scalded Genitals, Back Of Daughter With Cerebral Palsy
Parents from Bloomfield are seeking justice saying their daughter with cerebral palsy was left to suffer when a nurse put her in a scalding shower -- leaving her with burns on her backside and private areas. Maeylines Quinones, 21 -- who uses a wheelchair and cannot speak -- reportedly suffered severe burns after she was placed into burning hot water by her nurse at Bayada Home Health Care, Veronica Sandoval, on Oct. 10, 2019. Sandoval had been using a hoisting device to give Quinones a shower at her Bloomfield home, her parents say. Vanessa Quinones rushed her daughter to t…
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Hudson County Health Official Admits Taking Bribes
An official with the Hudson County Office of Aging Tuesday pleaded guilty to extortion in a scheme to funnel work to a firm that provides home health aides for the elderly and disabled, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Myrtha Nicholas, a 61-year-old Jersey City resident, entered into an arrangement with a home health care company in June 2016 in which an executive with the company would pay Nicholas $500 for each client referred to the company. The executive was identified as a confidential witness for the government. A few months later, on Aug. 4,. 2016, she received a $600 pay…
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Former Hudson County Official Accused Of Taking Bribes
A Jersey City woman who worked for Hudson County’s Office on Aging took bribes to funnel patients in need of health aides to a businessperson who turned out to be a witness for the government, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey said. Myrtha Nicolas, 61, was charged last week with extortion under color of official right. She was released on a $100,000 bond. Nicolas served as a referral coordinator who connected disabled patients with companies that provide health aides as part of an effort by the state to help patients live independently. In June 2016, a self-employed executive of a ho…
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