Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Care Nurse's Rapists Plead Guilty
In 2012, one of home care workers’ looming fears happened to a Louisiana home health agency nurse — before conducting a visit, she was abducted while outside the patient’s home in her car, then robbed and raped (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXI, No. 6). Now one of the perpetrator’s of the rape has been brought to justice.
Darren Holmes, 21, pleaded guilty in par-ish criminal court to charges of forcible rape, second-degree kidnapping and armed robbery, reports The Times-Picayune newspaper. He received a 40-year sentence.
Holmes was one of five men ranging in ages 17 to 21 charged in the case, in which the 53-year-old nurse’s cell phone and tablet were stolen. One other man charged in the attack also has taken a plea deal. In September 2013, the charges of aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping were dropped against David Quinn and the 19-year-old pleaded guilty to armed robbery for which he received an 18-year sentence, The Times-Picayune says. The three remaining defendants will face trial this month.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Home Care Nurse's Rapists Plead Guilty
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