MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 72-year-old guy faces 4 criminal fees after police stated he financially exploited his 95-year-old mother in Miami-Dade, involving 1000’s of greenbacks.
While in court Thursday, a Miami-Dade pass judgement on described the placement as “terrible and egregious” after it used to be realized that the sufferer used to be on the subject of being evicted from her house, with even a writ of ownership served.
Investigators discovered that the widow paid all her expenses till her son, who police recognized as Manuel Diaz Hernandez, won get admission to to her checking account, and wiped her out of about $57,000, in keeping with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
“The woman, who now lived alone in the rented apartment, was self-sufficient, independent, and ambulatory, performing her normal activities of daily living,” a commentary from the State Attorney’s Office stated. “Although she used a walker for ambulation, she remained cognitively lucid and clearly managed her own finances without assistance.”
That used to be when Diaz Hernandez took “an interest in her,” persuaded her to provide him get admission to to her checking account since he used to be a “blood relative,” and took all of the cash from March to August, in keeping with prosecutors.
“It is always inconceivably sad when a son, or a daughter, or another family member sees an elderly relative as an exploitable target. Too many of our older residents are vulnerable to exploitation,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle stated in a commentary.
According to the State Attorney’s Office, the expenditures consisted of rather insignificant purchases akin to jewellery, clothes and eating place visits.
Investigators stated the sufferer used to be “left with nothing,” not able to pay hire and in the end confronted eviction, however now has ok housing that used to be supplied through the SAO.
On Wednesday, a lady claiming to be Díaz Hernandez’s daughter said that the alleged sufferer isn’t mentally sound and asserted her father’s innocence.
The pass judgement on cautioned Díaz Hernandez that any touch with the sufferer would represent a contravention of the stay-away order, ensuing in a re-arrest and detention till his trial starts.
Fernandez Rundle added that the unit that offers with those instances has recognized masses of doable sufferers in Miami-Dade County and filed over 75 instances. To record a case of aged exploitation, name the Florida Abuse Hotline at 1-800-962-2873.
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