MONITORING LAWS IN SOUTH DAKOTA CAMERAS

21.09.2016 um 04:59

Sturgis Police were alerted to the abuse when relatives Brittany Boyd and Vicki Hullinger decided to place a small camera in the women's room at the senior care facility. The videos were live online with a commercial "Nest" cam and archived streamed so that the police could see them. The woman is in a wheelchair and has limited capabilities mobility and communication. She suffered a brain aneurysm at the age of 39 and then a massive stroke while on the operating table. She was in the courtroom for a short time on Monday.The alleged abuse took place in autumn 2015 Brittany Boyd said the camouflaged camera Donald Brown beating and suffocating the victim caught on numerous occasions. "I felt at just scared of what I saw," Boyd said. An indictment in the case was handed down in January. Meade County Attorney Kevin Krull in the case as "disgusting." "We have the video for the Grand Jury the game, we accused this case, and some of them were crying," he said.Boyd she said, had Hullinger suspected abuse and wanted to know how their relative was treated. She said there was nothing that Donald Brown said or did that they asked to install the night vision wifi cameras. The victim does have some strange injuries such as a broken arm in 2010. "I do not know what the nursing home are rules about, and frankly, do not really care," he said. "This is one of those cases, you know that this kind of thing happens, but you fear it.""Dieüberwachungskamera was the only way we would ever mini to know that he do something about (the victim)," she said. Boyd said that the surveillance laws in South Dakota cameras put ban in private institutions, where it could penetrate privacy patient. "I was not charged," Boyd said. "I did not know what I could do with the video evidence or who could I go with him, if it was illegal."

Only three states in the United States - Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico - have laws so that hidden spy cameras in nursing homes. Although it is not legal in South Dakota, the video evidence was allowed in this case. It is the first of its kind to come by Meade County under Krull. Eckrich sentenced Brown to two years imprisonment on each of the counts, but suspended all but 10 months. He also said Brown, who now lives in Bismarck, N. D. would have to forfeit his Certified Nursing Assistant license and spend four years probation.