Life
Love Him Till He Hurts
| A Foster City, Calif., Indian American has been charged with assaulting his 81-year-old father in the head with a hammer to secure his admission to a nursing home.
Jayantibhai Patel, 57, mistakenly believed that hospitalization was a precondition for admission to a nursing home.
“He was under a belief, we don’t know why, that you can’t go straight into a nursing home without being in the hospital,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. “He thought, ‘I can overcome that problem. I’ll put him in the hospital.'” Patel faces up to 10 years in jail for attempted murder, assault and elder abuse. He was released after his father, who received seven stitches, posted a $500,000 property bond. Police say Patel planned the assault and even attempted to recruit the live-in housekeeper in his scheme. His attorney Thomas J Gray criticized the media for sensationalizing the story, insisting that his client was motivated by his father’s best interests: “He was doing this because he loves his father and he wanted to take care of him.” |
