When a family decides to admit their loved one to a nursing home, there is an implied level of trust the facility and its staff will keep that individual safe.
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Wisconsin law does not require nursing home leadership to notify staff, residents or their families a registered sex offender lives on the property.
“That facility is going to address those issues on a case-by-case basis,” Wisconsin Healthcare Association CEO Rick Abrams said.
“If notification is appropriate, I have great confidence that they will do that. But on the other hand, if given the physical condition of the resident, given where that resident may live within the facility, if notification is not appropriate in that instance and worse yet, would unnecessarily alarm everyone else, then the facility should continue to make that discretion.”
It is up to individual families to find out whether a certain facility is home to a registered sex offender.
I can just imagine this happening in the WISC TV newsroom:
“Ratings are down. What news story can we use to generate viewers?
“Well, how about something about sex offenders? That’s always good for ratings since we can whip up anger.”
“We’ve tried all the usual easy-hate ideas. How about something new like nursing homes?”
“Has there been abuses by sex offenders in nursing homes?”
“No, but that’s not the point! We need to find some dirt and make it seem like a huge problem.”
“Ok, all of you find something we can whip into hysteria!”
If a person needs to reside in a nursing facility, how dangerous could they be, even if they wanted to be? How about people in a comma? Still need to inform people?
I recall a story I saw here about a Registrant that was denied residency for end of life care, in their own family member’s home, because the home was “too near a….” don’t recall. School, park, something. So this Registrant can just die in the street like a stray dog.
Personally, in an end of life situation, I would just intentionally FTR one way or another, and die in a prison hospital. As bad as that would be, it beats a van down by the river…or a tent on the street like I used to live in.
Either of those possibilities could be my, and thousands upon thousands of other registrant’s future.
I’m not going to die in a tent… by any means necessary. My reg buddy died alone in a tent, because his Sister, who would have taken him in, couldn’t. She lives in a state that has residency restrictions, that forbade this.
Maybe, just maybe, if he could have moved in with her after he got out of prison, he would have maintained the sobriety he reacquired in prison, instead of going back to the meth that killed him in that tent. He did stay sober for about a year living in the shelter where I first met him, but eventually the hopelessness got to him. I couldn’t either…
So, if while a resident in one and then an inappropriate situation (see picture) happens where one is “assaulted”, then what? Book, charge, convict, evict, and register? What’s the law say about that? I vote in giving Wisconsin to Canada.
I worked at a senior residency and continued care facility as a PT before my misdemeanor CP conviction. The facility manager told me I no longer would be allowed on the campus.Now the state rescinded my license so I wouldn’t have been able to work in the capacity of an employee, but I could have still worked as a contractor. The residents actually petitioned the management to allow me to stay after they were told. They wrote a letter saying they didn’t care. Here’s the kicker, one of the residents had served extended prison time for child molestation of his grandchild! He wasn’t legally allowed to be near anyone under 18 without supervision of another adult. The facility didn’t tell the residents about this. He routinely was around minors when other seniors had visitations. The main reason I suspect no one was told? The place cost $10,000 a month to live there. They didn’t want to lose that income! Now, the man was a nice, decent person that had done a bad thing. I enjoyed he and his wife’s company. She was one if my biggest supporters. But she also asked me not to mention his transgression for fear of being ostracized by the community. So even at that advanced age the fear of exposure still hangs over PFRs heads.
Well consider themselves lucky, in MA it is illegal for a sex offender to live in a nursing home, or drive an ice cream truck. I guess I’ll be dying under a bridge then.