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Cantonment Woman Accused Of Elderly Abuse Sentenced On Lesser Charges
February 5, 2015
A Cantonment woman charged last year with abusing her elderly roommate has been sentenced on lesser charges.
Kelly Colleen Lister was sentenced to 11 months and 15 days in the county jail, with credit for time served, for battery and resisting arrest without violence. A charge of abuse of a disabled elderly person was dropped.
The roommate victim told Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies that Kelly Colleen Lister has been drinking all day and broke several things inside their house before hitting her in the face. The victim told deputies she is mentally disabled and cannot move without the aid of a walker or wheelchair. She said Lister had knocked her off a couch.
An independent witness at the home confirmed the alleged abuse to deputies, according to an arrest report, and the victim had obvious physical injuries.
When deputies ordered Lister to stand up from a couch, she instead grabbed a bottle of liquor and began to drink it, and she pulled away from deputies trying to place her under arrest, the ECSO report states.
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4 Responses to “Cantonment Woman Accused Of Elderly Abuse Sentenced On Lesser Charges”
All of us want punishment when we hear of elderly abuse, but we must hear all stories, this girl needed it, but I have seen some very mean old people in my time, & I hate to say it needed something, some take their abuse to far & think nobody can do anything to them because their elderly, so wreak havoc on others to no means, that needs to be stopped & some not all handicap play that card really good, but this gal doesn’t need to be staying around anyone. I was taking up for a person which was a stranger to me years ago & I had that old person turn on me, when she was totally wrong by jumping on that other person, yeah it was their business, but you can only take & let someone else take so much & nobody else was coming to that persons defense.
Jane,I agree wholeheartedly!!!!!!!!!! Wonder if it had been the lawyer”s or Judge”s mother,would it have been so lenient?
I think this woman should be forbidden to care for the elderly or anyone for that matter. It appears, and maybe it was a one time incident, that she has a drinking problem and might be a danger to others-especially those in her care.
When someone drinks and then abuses an elderly person they should get a really stiff sentence! Any elder abuse should carry a very stiff sentence because in most cases they can not defend themselves.