Police arrested two employees at a Delaware County assisted-living community after the women allegedly punched, kicked and stripped a 78-year-old dementia patient, authorities say.
Samirah Traynnham, 22, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal conspiracy, neglect and endangerment, police say.
Another woman, Tyrinna Griffin, was also arrested Wednesday on suspicion of abuse, police say.
On Thursday Ayesha Muhammed appeared before a Haverford judge for her alleged role in the abuse. The 19-year-old allegedly poked the victim in the eye, restricted her from leaving the room and laughed at the victim.
According to court records the alleged attackers claim that the abuse was just a joke.
The family of the 78-year-old woman who was allegedly beaten had suspicions that the dementia patient was being abused and brought their complaints to management, in Haverford, who dismissed them.
With no help from management, the family then set up a motion-activated hidden camera in the 78-year-old’s room.
The hidden camera captured Traynnham and two other employees violently shaking, kicking and punching the elderly woman. On one occasion captured on video, Traynnham tried to pull a ring off of the woman’s finger.
As Griffin was led off in handcuffs Wednesday she told reporters that the abuse “wasn’t intentional.”







