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Nurse charged after alleged exorcism on nursing home patient
An officer doing a welfare check found a nurse standing over a nonverbal patient, saying demons had to come out.
In brief
An officer doing a welfare check found a nurse standing over a nonverbal patient, saying demons had to come out. A nonverbal resident and her roommates could not get help on their own, and it took an outside welfare call before anyone intervened. Originally reported by Valleynewslive.
A welfare check in Nazareth
On June 23, police in Nazareth, Pennsylvania were called to a county-run nursing facility after a report that a nurse was behaving strangely.
Two hours behind a door
The caller told police the nurse had shut herself away with a patient and would not come out for roughly two hours.
What the officer walked in on
An officer found Octavia Robinson standing over an elderly nonverbal patient with her fingers inside the patient's mouth.
Demons that needed to come out
Court documents say Robinson told police there were demons inside the patient that had to be driven out of her.
“there were demons inside the patient that "needed to come out"”
Roommates tried to raise the alarm
A grand jury report said the woman's roommates tried to get help from both staff and officers while it was happening.
Charges and a hospital hold
Robinson was charged with abuse of a care dependent person, harassment and simple assault, then taken to a hospital for an involuntary emergency mental health evaluation.
The headline
A nonverbal resident and her roommates could not get help on their own, and it took an outside welfare call before anyone intervened.
