Balfour Senior Living is also being sued for wrongful death related to the 2022 death of a 97-year-old woman who froze to death after being locked outside.
LOUISVILLE, Colo. — An employee of a Louisville senior living facility who was acting supervisor when a 97-year-old woman died last year after being locked outside is among three people now charged in a different incident where an elderly man was arrested based on false accusations that he assaulted his wife who has dementia.
Security video from Balfour Cherrywood Village shows that the Jan. 10 incident reported at the facility never happened. The company is being sued related to the death of Mary Jo Staub who lived at Lavender Farms, another facility on the campus. She died in February 2022 after she became trapped outside in freezing temperatures, despite promises that she would have 24-hour supervision, the lawsuit says.
This week Joshua Merrill, Kara Roberts and Dainzu Salinas Mosqueda were all charged for the January incident at the Cherrywood Village facility.
Merrill and Roberts are charged with:
Merrill is due in court on March 28. A warrant is still out for Roberts' arrest.
Salinas Mosqueda, a manager at the facility, is charged with failing to report mistreatment of an at-risk elder. She was acting supervisor at Lavender Farms when Staub died in 2022. She was arrested Wednesday...
Foley partner Lisa Noller, Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Department, will be speaking at the American Bar Association’s Qui Tam & Civil False Claims and Healthcare Fraud Institute in Washingt...