Life
Family suspects grandma being abused in care home and hide a camera to find out
Every time they visited Minnie, they noticed more and more bruises.
Jenny Brown
10.08.21

***Warning: Graphic Content***

Minnie Graham was a 98-year-old woman who had raised a huge family. A many-times great-great-grandmother to a large brood of loving Texans who wanted nothing but the best for their matriarch.

When Minnie reached a point that she could no longer live independently and began requiring care 24/7, she went to live at Winterโ€™s Park Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Garland, Texas where she and her family thought she would get the quality care that the sweet grandma needed.

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Unfortunately, that couldnโ€™t have been any further from the truth.

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There was no end to the love that Minnieโ€™s family felt for her, and many of them regularly visited with their grandma to check in on her and see how she was doing.

So, you can imagine how alarmed her granddaughters Terri Hardin and Shirley Ballard were when their precious grandmother increasingly complained about her caregivers โ€œhurtingโ€ her.

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Thatโ€™s when they started noticing bruises on Minnie, and then a black eye.

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Disturbed at the many painful-looking bruises and the frequency with which their grandma seemed to be getting injured, they went straight to the care facilityโ€™s hospice workers to find out exactly what was afoot with Minnieโ€™s care.

While you would think that the management would have been deeply concerned with the rate at which one of their residents was being routinely injured, they only gave a, seemingly, cookie-cutter response:

โ€œShe fell out of her wheelchair.โ€

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The blatant cover story literally added insult to injury, but it also did something else.

The suspicious injuries and the lack of interest on the part of the staff inspired Minnieโ€™s family to come up with a plan to see if the nurses were telling the truth about how their granny was repeatedly getting hurt.

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Rather than going back and forth or making accusations that they had no proof of, Minnieโ€™s granddaughters planted a clock with a hidden camera in her room at the care facility to finally get to the truth of the matter.

Nothing could have prepared them for the horrifying video they were about to watch.

As they stared in shock, Hardin and Ballard saw their 98-year-old grandmother being roughly pulled up into a sitting position by her arms as she screamed out in pain, begging the hospice care worker to stop.

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This only earned poor Minnie two hard, audible slaps to the face, as well as ongoing pinching, pushing, and pulling on her frail body, and pulling her hair to hold her in a sitting position by the worker, later identified as Brenna Tiller, who was Minnieโ€™s regularly assigned nursing assistant.

After she shoves Minnie back down onto the bed while she is stripping her clothes off to give her a forceful bath with a hand towel, Tiller goes on to mock and taunt Minnie while she repeatedly cries out for help that goes unanswered.

She calls Minnie names in the video, telling her that she is โ€œuglyโ€ and โ€œretardedโ€.

In a shockingly immature fashion, Tiller makes whining noises and sticks out her tongue at Minnie as she cries out, never ceasing to be excessively rough with the kind old lady.

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As Tiller continues with her verbal assault on Minnie, she violently scrubs her body with a washcloth that she never rinses out.

After Tiller is finished โ€œwashingโ€ Minnie, she shoves the filthy washcloth she just used to wash her body with into the helpless grandmaโ€™s mouth.

Sadly, Minnieโ€™s abuse doesnโ€™t end there, either.

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