BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Daniel Jenkins, 85, was found dead on a desolate stretch of East Baltimore’s Edison Highway on March 3, 2019. He had dementia, according to court records, and was likely confused and cold on that frigid, winter day.
Four days earlier, Jenkins had been placed into Asa Ene Ita’s unlicensed assisted living home on North Luzerne Street in Baltimore after its operator claimed the vulnerable adult would be safe.
Instead, Jenkins wandered from the house unnoticed, unmissed and unreported for more than 12 hours, according to a guilty-plea statement of facts filed by then-Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office and agreed to by Ita…