An employee at Gracedale Nursing Home in Upper Nazareth Township is accused of assaulting a patient because she thought the woman needed to have demons removed from her body, authorities say.
Octavia Lasha Robinson, 43, of Morristown, New Jersey, is charged with misdemeanor abuse of a care-dependent person; misdemeanor simple assault; and summary harassment. A warrant has been filed for her arrest at the office of District Judge John Capobianco.
Jessica Berger, the county’s deputy director of administration, told lehighvalleylive.com Robinson was hired for a contractual outside-agency nursing staff position on June 11 at the Northampton County-owned facility…