Brown Sends Arsonist to Prison for Attempted Murder of San Diego County Nursing Home Residents

09.02.10 - 13:39 ... source : California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

... San Diego-Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that Mary Louise Wilson, 54, of San Diego, has been sentenced to 19 years and 4 months in prison for attempting to "kill or seriously injure" nursing home residents by setting fires in the homes. Today's sentence marks the longest prison term that anyone convicted by the Attorney General's Office has received in an elder abuse case. "These fires were no accident. This woman meant to kill or seriously injure dozens of disabled people," Brown said. "Residents of nursing homes are particularly vulnerable, so today's sentence is an important victory in our fight against elder abuse in California communities." Brown's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse (BMFEA) was created in 1978 to uncover Medi-Cal fraud and to combat the abuse and neglect of patients in nursing homes and other long-term care facilitie ...» Next (HTML)