Caregiver sentenced to 15 years for abusing elderly patient at Eugene memory care facility

EUGENE, Ore. (KATU) β€” The Oregon Department of Justice says that 50-year-old Michael Putman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing an 86-year-old victim at a memory care facility in Eugene.

Officials say Putman carried out the abuse over several months while he was employed as the victim’s evening caregiver at Churchill Estates.

β€œThe victim was particularly vulnerable due to advanced age and cognitive impairment,” the department said in a press release…

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