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Three women have been arrested and charged for abusing a 78-year-old woman at a local nursing home facility in Haverford, PA.

After hearing complaints of alleged nursing home abuse from his mother-in-law, Lois McCallister, Paul French secretly installed a nanny cam inside the McCallister's room at Quadrangle Retirement/Nursing Home Facility. What Paul and his wife Mary French would find would be horrifying.

The nanny cam recordings on March 31st would later reveal staff taunting and tugging at the ears of the 78-year-old victim and screaming in her ear. One employee was caught striking the victim across the face and head, while another was caught harassing her while she was topless. A third incident shows a nursing home staff member poking the victim in the eye. The same three women, Samirah Traynham, Ayesha Muhammad, and Tyrina Griffin, were responsible for all recorded instances of nursing home abuse.

The nursing home initially denied allegations of abuse and attributed it to McCallister's dementia stating the claims were "unfounded." However, the three women taking care of McCallister (Traynham, Muhammad and Griffin) were later arrested, and charged with aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy, neglect of care-dependent person, harassment and recklessly endangering another person.

The CEO of Sunrise Senior Living, which operates Quadrangle, has since announced that this was an isolated incident, however, the district attorney didn't rule out that other staff, including high level administration, could face charges of nursing home neglect.