BALTIMORE: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers. But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
83. A stocky tattooed ice user is accused of breaking into a southeast suburban retirement community at night and entering units.
In one unit, it is alleged, he pulled down his pants and committed an obscene act in front of an 84-year-old woman sitting in bed watching TV.
The petrified but plucky woman frightened him off with a walking stick, the court hears. It is alleged he entered another unit where four women were present, and was arrested in possession of a pair of female underpants.