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SLIDELL, La. (WGNO) — A Slidell woman was arrested on Friday, Aug. 13, after she allegedly attacked a person under her care who is non-verbal and intellectually disabled.
According to Attorney General Liz Murrill, the investigation into Evangelina Ussin, of Liberty Drive, in Slidell, began after a complaint came in from the Louisiana Department of Health.
In a video, Ussin, a service worker for My Purpose Community Service, allegedly hit the victim, whom she was a direct service worker for, in the head and back using her hand, foot and a fence gate.
The affidavit reportedly states that special agents reviewed videos allegedly showing Ussin telling the victim to get up multiple times as they cried, then hitting them with an open hand multiple times on the back of their head and continuing to tell them to get up.
Ussin also allegedly grabbed the corner of a metal gate and hit the victim in the back with it multiple times, before kicking and kneeing them while yelling.
Ussin was arrested by Murrill’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Prison on one count of cruelty to persons with infirmities. Her bond is unknown.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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