A 95-year-old grandmother who was beaten by a healthcare worker has revealed that she had indeed tried to fight back but was ‘weak’ against the attacker.
Dorothy Foye was being cared for by the female assistant from Medflyt at Home Health Care Agency in New York City on July 21 when she was attacked.
Nest and Ring camera footage showed the worker yelling ‘You p**sing me off’ at the old woman before violently throwing two objects in her direction.
Later in the video she hit her with a saucepan, which Dorothy blocked with her arm, then threw the pot over her head.
The career is then seen approaching Dorothy again with another pan, repeatedly bashing her over the head with as she clung to her walker, until she fell to the floor.
Dorothy Foye, 95, who was beaten by a healthcare worker has now revealed that she had indeed tried to fight back but was ‘weak’ against the attacker
Dorothy was left battered and bruised by the attack, has trouble lifting her arms, and is still in pain with doctors concerned about possible blood clots.
Days after the attack, the old woman said that she was unable to ‘fight that big woman’ off.
‘If I said I feel good, I’d be lying. I was trying to fight back, but I’m weak. I can’t fight that big woman,’ she told Fox5Vegas.
Dorothy further said: ‘I would like to beat her myself, get somebody to beat her like she did me.’
Her daughter Ramona Mitchell was away from the apartment and got a call from her daughter, who was watching the attack on her phone.
She said her other daughter, Tiffany called Michelle and said her grandmother was being attacked and she called Ramona in tears.
The career came at Dorothy with a saucepan, repeatedly bashing her over the head with as she clung to her walker
The healthcare worker hit Dorothy until she fell to the floor
Dorothy’s daughter Ramona Mitchell was away from the apartment and got a call from her daughter, who was watching the attack on her phone
‘Tiffany just told me that the girl beat her up, Michelle was crying and screaming on the train ‘oh my God, grandma’s been beat up’,’ she told ABC 7.
Michelle said watching the ‘horrific’ attack was a ‘nightmare’ and one of the worst days of her life.
‘I felt helpless… it was the worst thing I could have imagined,’ she said.
‘It was so unreal to me, that someone could punch somebody like they were beating them down.’
Police are looking for the worker, but have not yet found her to make an arrest.
‘We’re doing an internal investigation, alongside the New York City Police Department, and are cooperating with authorities,’ Medflyt said.
