Alabama Attorney General Steven Marshall today announced three former employees of a Cherokee County nursing home have been indicted for the neglect of an 84-year-old resident of the facility. 

Marshall said Michele Curry, 42, of Centre, was arrested this morning and has been released on $30,000 bond. Kacey Allen, 28, also of Centre, and Shawna Rogers, 26, of Rome, Ga., were arrested this afternoon.

The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit presented evidence to a Cherokee County grand jury on Feb. 15 charging each woman with one count of elder abuse/neglect in the second degree.

The three are former employees of Cherokee Health and Rehab nursing home in Centre. Investigators say Curry, a licensed practical nurse, and Rogers and Allen, certified nursing assistants, were responsible for the care of a nursing home resident confined to a bed throughout the night of Sept. 3, 2016 and into the following morning. 

Authorities say the three charted that they had entered the room numerous times throughout the night to check on the resident. However, a review of the surveillance video showed none of the three entered the room for approximately 11 hours.

When the resident was finally checked on, she was found to be suffering from approximately one hundred ant bites.  

“It is alleged this intentional neglect directly contributed to the injuries to the resident,” the news release states.

If convicted, the women could face two to 20 years in jail.

Marshall commended the staff and administration of Cherokee Health and Rehab for their quick reporting of the incident and his office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for the investigation which led to the indictments.

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