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Shocking cellphone footage recorded by a Los Angeles hospice worker shows the moment a man sexually assaulted his 95-year-old aunt-in-law.
Nina Robinson said she left her cellphone recording inside the bedroom of her patient on May 5, because she had begun to suspect the elderly woman was being abused.
'I could not allow him to do that to her,' Robinson told KTLA.
The video shows the man - who has not been identified because he has not been charged with a crime - entering the room and then leaning down to whisper to the old lady about how he wants to 'make love'.
Robinson says she walked into the room about 20 minutes after she started recording the video to intervene.
'I walked in the room. He didn't see me. And the position he was standing in told me he was doing something wrong,' Robinson said.
Robinson says she took the video to her manager, who also happens to be the owner of the hospice company where she works, that same day.
Robinson says her boss was 'floored' but ended up firing her for negligence because she left the patient, who suffers from dementia, alone.
Robinson says she is now filing a lawsuit against the company for wrongful termination.
When contacted by KTLA, Sparks disputed Robinson's claim that she was fired.
She also said that after seeing the video, she immediately banned the relative in question from visiting the patient and notified the proper authorities. Adult protective services and the LAPD are now investigating the matter, Sparks said.
'The suspect did something terribly wrong and is no longer allowed around the patient. We contacted the proper authorities in this matter,' Sparks said in a statement.
KTLA also reached out to the man in question, but he did not respond.