Nursing asst. gets jail in foot-dragging incident A certified nursing assistant was sentenced to 21 days in jail on a charge of criminal negligence of a vulnerable adult. Prosecutors said Ophelia Tarpeh, 40, of Alexandria, was escorting a partially paralyzed resident of the Leewood Healthcare Center in Alexandria to a dentist appointment in D.C. The nurse and patient had been dropped off at the wrong hospital, and Tarpeh began pushed the patient in a wheelchair to another area. The wheelchair did not have a footrest, and the patient’s foot dragged along a concrete sidewalk and asphalt for up to 8,000 feet. As a result, doctors had to cut off one of the client’s toes, prosecutors said.

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