A carer drew whiskers on the face of a woman with the mental age of four and offered her dog biscuits, a court has heard. Debra Ralph, 54, was looking after the woman at Agricola House in Bury. Ralph was struck off and arrested within days of the incidents.
Judge Tina Landale said: "It's hard to think of a more vulnerable victim than a person in her position." The court heard Ralph had also put the woman on her knee and riven her backward and forwards in the car park.
Prosecuting, Sophie Kenny, told the court that colleagues told her this kind of behaviour constituted abuse. Three days later she was arrested by police for the ill treatment of the woman as a care worker and pleaded guilty to the offence in court.
