KHTS Radio Santa Clarita Radio – Santa Clarita News
A Santa Clarita couple who runs a home for “dependent adults” is accused of harming one of those clients, Sheriff’s Station officials said Friday.
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Robert Jenkins, 59, and his wife Prissie Jenkins, 55, run the Jenkins Group Home for “dependent adults,” located on the 20300 block of Delight Street, Canyon Country, said Lt. Brenda Cambra of the Sheriff’s Station’s Detective Bureau.
“A dependent adult alleged that she was hit by her caretaker,” said Cambra. “Deputies investigated and found that the victim had physical evidence of an assault — a couple of bruises.”
The couple was arrested at the care facility on suspicion of harming an adult dependent, which is a felony, Wed., May 13 at about 5:30 p.m., said Cambra.
The other five “dependent adults,” were in “good health,” and were placed elsewhere, Cambra said. Bail for each of the suspects was set at $50,000, and they were released on bond Thursday.
The case is still under investigation and deputies have notified Los Angeles County Adult Protective Services, Cambra said.
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I don’t know this couple, but I’ve worked in health care facilities for years and sometimes, older people fall and get bruised and sometimes, if they are unhappy where they have been placed, they lie about what happened so they will be taken out of the facility……And there are others, who may have the beginning of Alzheimer’s who get confused and believe people are out to harm them. As I said, I don’t know this couple, but they have been permanently tarnished, even if they are innocent.