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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Anna Falkenmire

'You saw nothing': aged care nurse assaulted six patients in Hunter dementia ward

AN aged care nurse working in a dementia wing at a Hunter facility subjected six elderly residents to a series of disgusting and brutal assaults, punching them in the stomach, twisting their genitals and nipples and farting in their faces.

Phoebe Schwager was working as an assistant in nursing at Uniting Garden Suburb when she repeatedly assaulted and abused a number of elderly patients and two staff members between October 2024 and February 2025.

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