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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

‘My dementia-stricken sister was abused by a rapist care home worker. Now she just sits and screams’

Essex Police

Caroline* first met her sister Joanna*’s abuser when she was visiting her care home, where she was being treated for dementia. He helped them put a TV up on Joanna’s bedroom wall. He seemed, as Caroline puts it, quite pleasant.

But her sister’s reaction to the worker during another visit worried her. “One day he walked past while we were sitting in the dining room and my sister’s eyes narrowed and followed him all the way around the room,” she said. “She just put her head down and she said ‘f****** b******.”

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