Lawsuit: Male stripper did show at NY nursing home

[Suzanimal]

She wasn't too ashamed to tip the stripper.

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. —

An 85-year-old nursing home patient was the victim of "disgraceful sexual perversion" when a male stripper gyrated in front of her against her will at the suburban New York facility, an attorney for the woman's family said Tuesday.

John Ray, the attorney for Bernice Youngblood and her family, displayed a picture of a man in white briefs dancing in front of the woman at East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in September 2012.

The photo, which Ray said Youngblood's son found during a visit to his mother, shows the woman putting money into the dancer's waistband.

Ray said Youngblood had been urged to participate and did so against her will. The family has filed suit against the nursing home seeking unspecified damages.

Ray said Youngblood, who herself had worked as a health aide for the elderly, had her dignity taken away when "nursing home employees subjected her to this disgraceful sexual perversion."

Youngblood, who attended the news conference in a wheelchair with some of her relatives at her side, mumbled in a barely audible voice that she felt "terrible" and "ashamed" about what happened, but did not remember details.

Howard Fensterman, an attorney representing the facility, said a 16-member resident committee had requested the September 2012 performance and the nursing home paid the $250 fee.

Fensterman said the facility's management reserves the right to reject a request by the residents' committee, particularly if the activity were deemed detrimental.

"But in this instance these are adults who wanted to have this activity, they requested it, they voted on it and the nursing home approved of it," he said.

Franklin Youngblood said he went to a nursing supervisor for an explanation immediately after finding the photo in his mother's bedroom drawer. The lawsuit claims the nurse attempted to grab the photo from him.

Fensterman said the girlfriend of one of Bernice Youngblood's sons had taken her to the stripper show, and not nursing home employees. Ray said Youngblood's son disputed that claim and, in any case, that does not mean Youngblood was not harmed by what she saw.

Fensterman also chided Ray for claiming that Youngblood was suffering from dementia, while at the same time noting the woman signed a power of attorney document claiming she was competent to sign it.

"Ms. Youngblood suffers from partial dementia," Ray said. "She has moments of partial lucidity."

The claims and counter-claims came during a sequence of heated news conferences outside the facility in West Babylon. Reporters and cameramen jostled in a large scrum around Fensterman and Ray when they briefly became embroiled in an argument after Ray presented his counterpart with a copy of the lawsuit complaint.

The state Health Department is investigating the incident, a spokesman said.
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[cajuncocoa]

LOL...I sent this story to a friend yesterday with the comment , "Bernice doesn't look all that offended to me!!"

[tod evans]

Here's to old ladies!

[Danke]

"Ms. Youngblood suffers from partial dementia," Ray said. "She has moments of partial lucidity."

My kinda woman.

[acptulsa]

Good thing Franklin Youngblood doesn't do that kind of show himself. Since he has his panties in a knot, he might get arrested.

So, is he thinking his forgetful mother is damaged for life? Or is he suing because he thinks his mother never liked sex (the fact of his own existence on this Earth notwithstanding) and now he has pain and suffering?

Or are lawsuits the only way people like him can afford to live in New York City?

An Oklahoma judge would throw it out of court.

[Nirvikalpa]

Good thing Franklin Youngblood doesn't do that kind of show himself. Since he has his panties tighty-whities or boxers in a knot, he might get arrested.

So, is he thinking his forgetful mother is damaged for life? Or is he suing because he thinks his mother never liked sex (the fact of his own existence on this Earth notwithstanding) and now he has pain and suffering?

Or are lawsuits the only way people like him can afford to live in New York City?

An Oklahoma judge would throw it out of court.

FIFY. And my money would be on him being damaged and needing psychological help for knowing now his mother enjoyed/enjoys/likes/liked sex.

It always flabbergasted me how uncomfortable people get when even bringing up the thought of parents and even grandparents having sex. It's not just the 20/30/40/50 year old's doing it folks. EMS calls prove it (and what usually is the cause of these proving EMS calls... viagra prescriptions)

[SilentBull]

The woman is saying she was forced to participate. But then again, she has dementia. Hmmm. So why the hell should we believe her when she says she was forced? Sounds like a family trying to take advantage of the situtation to see if they can get some money out of this.

[FindLiberty]

Is that the same retirement home that gives their male residents Viagra each night to prevent
them from accidently rolling out of bed in their sleep? While that may prevent some, if not all
broken hips from rolling out of bed, there'd be a high incidence of painfully snapped kickstands!