A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a caretaker charged with abusing a 90-year-old man.
Judge Lynn Stewart ordered the arrest of Anastacia Oluoch, 53, of Baltimore City, after the woman failed to appear for trial on assault charges.
“It angers me,” said Jaki Taylor, whose father, John, was allegedly beaten. “I told them she wasn?t going to show up. She might have gone back to Kenya.”
Police were called to the 500 block of Mount Holly Street on May 19, and Jaki Taylor showed them a videotape of her father?s caretaker, Oluoch, abusing her father, police said.
Taylor said she installed hidden cameras in the house as a precaution because she said her father had been abused at a previous nursing home, but hadn?t checked the cameras for weeks.
“When I watched the video, it was horrible what I discovered,” she told The Examiner. “I observed her taking her fist and punching him in the chest and stomach, and pushing him in the groin. I used to think this woman was great, but she was just whaling on him. She was slapping him in the back of the head. He was taking the beating of his life.”
Officers who watched the video said they saw Oluoch strike John Taylor “with a closed fist,” according to a police report. There were no visible injuries on John Taylor when police responded to the house, and Jaki Taylor refused medical treatment for her father, officers wrote.
Oluoch is charged with second-degree assault, abusing a vulnerable adult and reckless endangerment.
She was released from the city?s Central Booking and Intake Center on May 22 on a $5,000 bond.
