CHICAGO: 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:
135. A man is on trial charged with multiple counts of robbing elderly women in their retirement homes.
The prosecutor told the jury of seven men and five women that a woman visiting her sick mother noticed her handbag had been stolen and later discovered her car was missing.
CCTV footage showed the defendant wandering though the carpark, looking for the car by pressing an electronic car key. After he found the car he escaped with it by speeding through the carpark’s barrier arm behind another car.