A Florida home health care aide is behind bars after she allegedly left an 86-year-old man who had fallen out of bed on the floor. Instead of helping the man back up, she went to sleep, cops say. The man ended up dying, according to cops.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office , Beatrice Taylor worked for Assisting Hands Home Health Care. She arrived for her overnight shift around 9 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Winter Haven home of Edward Anderson, who was in hospice after being in the hospital for heart issues, deputies say. The dayshift aide reportedly told Taylor the man and his wife were in bed but not asleep.
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Taylor fell asleep on the couch — which is against company policy — when she heard a “thump” from Anderson’s bedroom around 1 a.m., according to deputies.
“She went into the bedroom and observed him lying on his right side, on the floor, with his head wedged in between the nightstand and the bed,” Sheriff spokeswoman Carrie Horstman wrote in a press release. “She told detectives that she attempted to assist him back into the bed but that he told her not to touch him, so she left him on the floor and did not call anyone, including 9-1-1 or her employer (against company policy).”