84-Year-Old Charged With Kidnapping Wife

[Rhino]

84-Year-Old Man Charged With Kidnapping Wife From Nursing Home

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

WARREN, Mich. — An 84-year-old man who took his 81-year-old wife from a Michigan nursing home and moved her to Florida has been charged with kidnapping her.

Judge John Chmura of 37th District Court in Warren on Monday reduced the bond for Joseph Perez from $100,000 to a personal bond, and he was released from the Macomb County Jail. He had been held since being charged last week with kidnapping his wife Helen.

Kidnapping carries a possible sentence of life in prison, but a prosecutor suggested that the charge may not stand.

"Let's put it this way: Everybody's going to have a merry Christmas," Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor John Latella told The Detroit News. A preliminary examination is scheduled Wednesday.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237421,00.html

[Un Con Troll Able]

Sad...and cautionary. Some would applaud the old guy, but not taking the medication is clearly irresponsible considering his wife has a heart condition.

Still, all she wanted to do (apparently) was to go home.

[Wolfcounsel]

If my wife or I get hauled off to a nursing home, the newspapers will have a story about an elderly citizen being jailed for kicking the crap out of three adult great-grandsons who attempted it.

[Rhino]

T'weren't the grandsons. It was the gub'mint.

[Wolfcounsel]

"T'weren't the grandsons. It was the gub'mint." --Rhino

Good thing I didn't post it in Comedy Central. How many elderly people do you know that can kick the crap out of even one full-grown adult male?:evilgrin:

[DeclinetoState]

Sad...and cautionary. Some would applaud the old guy, but not taking the medication is clearly irresponsible considering his wife has a heart condition.
Is it really better to "live" in a nursing home, where you get your meds but probably not much else, or die due to lack of medication but at least in the company of your loving spouse?