Sexual assault of vulnerable senior by B.C. care aide highlights gaps in long-term care, advocates say

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A B.C. care aide has been sentenced to one year of house arrest for sexually assaulting a woman at the Swan Valley Lodge in Creston, a long-term care facility run by the Interior Health Authority.

The assault in January 2020 was caught on a camera in the victim’s private room at the care home, according to a civil lawsuit her husband has filed against the worker and the health authority. 

“There isn’t a day that goes by that he does not think about what took place at the care facility,” said Keri Grenier, the husband’s lawyer. 

“This is going to be something that is eating at him for

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