SHELTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut home health aide has been charged with stealing more than $20,000 from an elderly dementia patient she was caring for.
Police say 30-year-old Jennifer Poitevien, of Shelton, was charged Wednesday with first-degree larceny, credit card theft and first-degree identity theft.
Police were tipped off by a man who said his 83-year-old mother, who suffers from dementia, was missing “a large sum of money from her bank accounts.”
Police say their investigation found that Poitevien made ATM withdrawals with the victim’s credit card and opened another card in the victim’s name.
Poitevien is charged with stealing about $22,000 from the victim’s since April 2018.
She was held on $5,000 bond. It’s not clear if she has a lawyer.
The agency that employed her has fired her.
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