The hospital nurse allegedly used hand sanitizer to remove multiple wedding rings from a dementia patient’s hand, which dislocated one of the 87-year-old victim’s fingers, before the nurse then allegedly stole a $1,000 gold bracelet off the wrist of another elderly patient a month later.
A Georgia nurse is being accused of stealing expensive jewelry — including wedding rings and a gold bracelet — from elderly hospital patients under her care.
Stephanie Phillips-Siwiec — a 54-year-old nurse at Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center — is charged with three counts of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of the elderly, three counts of robbery, and aggravated battery, per Fulton County Jail records.
According to an affidavit from the Roswell Police Department, per local Fox affiliate WAGA and obtained by Law&Crime , the investigation began last week when a daughter of a 95-year-old patient reported that her mother’s 18-karat gold chain link bracelet — which was reportedly valued at $1,000 — was stolen from her wrist after she was transferred to a room at North Fulton Hospital on September 28.