‘Unconscionable’: Man receives maximum sentence for elder abuse

(FOX40.COM) — A man received a five-decade sentence for transforming his elderly parents’ home “into a place of absolute terror,” the San Joaquin District Attorney’s Office said.

The defendant, 53-year-old Vincent Lemus, became angry with his parents and resorted to violence in December 2024, the district attorney’s office explained in a news release Wednesday.

Lemus threatened his parents and struck his 90-year-old father in his face. Because the father had dementia, he couldn’t recall his son’s violence, but Lemus’s mother successfully reported it to law enforcement…

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