Caretaker sentenced to five years for elder abuse
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 2 months AGO
BOZEMAN — A Bozeman woman has been sentenced to five years’ probation for abusing the partially paralyzed 63-year-old man who hired her to care for him.
Elsie Evans McEntire previously pleaded no contest to felony elder abuse.
District Judge Holly Brown sentenced the 53-year-old McEntire Tuesday.
Brown also ordered McEntire to participate in the Treatment Court program.
Prosecutors say the man told police on Sept. 3 McEntire hit him with a fan. She denied it, but said they had been arguing.
Police returned to the mobile home about 35 minutes later after the man said McEntire threatened to kill him with a kitchen knife.
Prosecutors say McEntire was in the back of the trailer, fought with officers and had to be carried to the patrol car.
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