April 10, 2014
Franklin Youngblood filed the suit on behalf of his 85-year-old mother, whom he said was swindled out of money and humiliated when the home thrust a near-naked stripper onto the residents. YIKES!
According to Youngblood, he found a photo of a scantily clothed male gyrating his pelvis in the face of his mom, Bernice Youngblood, at the East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in West Babylon. When he confronted the nursing staff about what he had found, he claimed they stonewalled him and even tried to snatch the pic away.
Youngblood was also surprised to learn that hired strippers are part of an ongoing and regular “entertainment activity” sponsored by the center.
Youngblood said his mother suffers from Alzheimer’s, advanced dementia and is confined to a wheelchair, which made her unable to fend off the stripper. He also claims the dollar bills she was told to stuff in the G-string of the strippers were taken from her personal account.
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However, an attorney for the facility has come forward to announce that the elderly residents actually decided on their own to throw the spring-break-style male-stripper party in the facility’s rec room — and the old ladies loved every last bump and grind of it!
On Tuesday, Attorney Howard Fensterman said a leadership group of more than a dozen residents at the facility approved the sexy stripper show by doling out $250 of their own funds to hire the dirty dancer.
“The home has an activities panel of 16 people — residents — who actually voted to have this event,” Fensterman said. “They welcomed it, and it looks like they had a good time.”
Fensterman also pointed out that Bernice Youngblood was smiling and looked quite “entertained” in the photo that sparked the lawsuit.
So, who’s right? Did the nursing home force a male stripper on its elderly residents against their will? Or, was Bernice Youngblood and her old girlfriends simply trying to get their freak on one last time, but overcome with embarrassment once their families found out?
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a male stripper as part of an ‘entertainment event.’
Is this a belated April Fools joke? Is it possible that Ms. Youngblood did consent to the stripper but then due to her mental state declined shortly before or in the moment? I am unsure of the laws but I would bet that the nursing home violated her rights somehow by not offering her to opt out.