MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – State investigators say surveillance video within a southwest Miami-Dade assisted living facility confirmed a 29-year-old guy kissing after which abusing a cognitively-impaired 92-year-old guy living there.
Authorities arrested Cristian Rodriguez Cabanes on 3 counts of battery on an individual over 65 at Miami police headquarters Tuesday, after an arrest warrant used to be issued in August.
The alleged abuse took place at Lake View ALF, a home-based facility at 14220 Kendale Lakes Blvd. The warrant doesn’t specify whether or not Rodriguez Cabanes labored at the power throughout the alleged abuse and, if this is the case, in what position.
Its proprietor reported the abuse to Miami-Dade police, the warrant states.
State investigators with the Florida Office of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control unit stated within the warrant that Rodriguez Cabanes, a resident of Miami Beach at the time, used to be observed in a July 2, 2022 video recording “kissing the victim multiple times on the mouth.”
“At one point, (Rodriguez Cabanes) is seen wiping his lips after being kissed by the victim on the mouth,” investigator Juan Vera wrote.
Vera wrote that the sufferer didn’t have the aptitude to consent because of his cognitive impairments and bodily barriers.
Authorities stated Rodriguez Cabanes used to be additionally heard threatening to “backhand the victim on the face” and used to be then observed “smashing” the disabled senior’s nostril 5 occasions together with his left hand, then two times together with his proper hand.
The aged guy attempted to combat again, whilst Rodriguez Cabanes held his head down “in an aggressive manner,” they stated.
“The victim is heard moaning and groaning while this is happening,” Vera wrote.
Rodriguez Cabanes, indexed with a Portland, Oregon cope with in Tuesday’s arrest bureaucracy, used to be being held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $60,000 bond.
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