The defendant, a personal support worker at a nursing home, was charged with assault for allegedly pushing the head of an elderly patient with Alzheimer's disease three times while showering her.
The Crown's case relied on the testimony of a fellow PSW worker who claimed to have witnessed the alleged pushes.
The defendant testified that she was simply washing the patient's face and hair to remove feces and did not assault the patient.
The court found the defendant not guilty, concluding that the Crown failed to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt due to significant frailties in the eyewitness testimony and the consistency of the defendant's account with the physical evidence.
