Man Posed As Retarded Person Who Needed Diapers Changed - Sentenced

[matcom]

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. --A man accused of fondling home health care nurses while posing as a mentally retarded person who needed diapers changed has been sentenced to a year on home confinement.

William Mucklow, 40, of Charleston was sentenced Tuesday by Kanawha County Magistrate Warren McGinnis after pleading guilty to two counts of battery, a magistrate clerk said. Two fraud charges were dismissed.

Mucklow was also ordered to pay court costs and to pay one victim more than $400 in restitution.

Mucklow, posing as his mother, responded to ads for home health care workers and hired two nurses, telling them a man with the mind of a 2- or 3-year-old needed care, according to criminal complaints filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court in 2004.

Police said Mucklow then posed as a mentally retarded person.

The nurses, who worked separately in February and March of 2004, said Mucklow grabbed their breasts while they cared for him.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/09/19/man_gets_home_confinement_for_groping?mode=PF

[Hugin]

1. Story reminds me I need to hire someone to change my man-box...

I'm tired of doing it.

[Nye Bevan]

2. Someone should forward this to the Farrelly Brothers

They could definitely make a movie out of this idea.

[KurtNYC]

3. I think you mean the Wayans brothers

[Blue-Jay]

4. Now why didn't *I* think of that?

[4morewars]

5. That's illegal ?!?!?!?!?!?

Shit , I better put on some pants before them nurses get here !

:bounce:

[Samurai_Writer]

6. I'm a home health caregiver, and I'm not surprised

There is a lot of sexual harrassment from male patients to female caregivers. I have been subject to it myself. In the case referenced above, the guy was not even a 'patient', but a fraud. But even mentally and physically disable patients, or elderly patients, are capable of sexual harrassment. It's a real problem in the health care industry. I was lucky in that my agency acted accordingly, taking me out of that patient's home immediately, and making sure he was not sent any other female caregivers, but only male caregivers. But many home health caregivers are not so lucky.

[Hugin]

8. Wow... I wasn't aware it was such a problem.

Amazing, it really hurts others who need the care.

[Radical Activist]

7. I thought I had heard it all.

Just fucking bizarre.