76-Year-Old Patient Sitter Sentenced for Striking 'Paralyzed' Man, 68, with Remote Control for Hospital Bed Eleanor Flowers assaulted the victim — who had previously suffered a stroke — in ...

A 76-year-old woman has been sentenced for charges of criminal abuse after she allegedly struck a cognitively Impaired hospital patient with a remote controller.

On January 4, 2021, while attempting to change the soiled clothing of a 68-year-old patient under her care, Flowers struck the patient repeatedly with the hospital bed’s remote controller.