SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – An elderly woman with dementia is spending her sixth night in jail after she allegedly attacked another patient at her senior care facility.
However, civil rights attorney Jeff Kravitz says the care facility in charge failed both the suspect and the victim. He believes police were only doing their job, but the care facility paid to watch 77-year-old Martha Glover is the reason why the grandmother is in jail and not in a hospital where her family says she belongs.n
“I don’t think the police ultimately had much choice about making the initial arrest,” said Kravitz.
Glover continues to sit in jail. She is charged with assault with a deadly weapon: a comb.
“The fact she has dementia could not legally be a prohibition on making an arrest. Indeed the police have the right to detain people who have serious psychological problems if they are a danger to themselves or others,” said Kravitz.
Glover was arrested at Solano Life House, a care facility for dementia patients, where she was being treated.
Dixon police say Glover stabbed another elderly patient in the face and head with a coming with a pointed end, sending her to the hospital. That’s where Glover’s family thought she would also end up, not hauled away in handcuffs by police.
cops were in a bad position here---alexis
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