Woman Forgets About Uncle Blames APS

This is some bullshit. I'll let you read the story before i go off on a tangent.

Woman Loses Track Of Relative After Nursing Home Closes; No Help From APS

EL PASO, Texas -- After an illegal elder foster care home was forced to shut down, one woman said it took two days to track down her relative who used to live there. From the outside, no one would guess how 10 elderly patients were treated in a west El Paso Home. "The smell the stench was so horrible. I mean it would make you throw up," Rosie Pidone said Pidone's uncle was removed from the nursing home that was eventually shut down. She said no one from Adult Protective Services would give her any information, even though she was his legal gaurdian. "I spent all day Sunday and all day yesterday and today calling around an no one knew where his whereabouts," Pidone said. Paul Zimmerman, a spokesman for Adult Protective Services, told KFOX sometimes getting in contact with family members is not always quick or easy. "The first people we try to contact is the family. Unfortunately that information is not always readily available. We do not give out information over the telephone because there is no way to verify who someone says they are over the phone is who they are," he said Pidone said she paid a visit to the office, but still got no answers. "I spent today at Adult Protective Services speaking to people who could give me answers, and nobody told me anything, they just gave me the runaround . One day we are all going to get old. We don't want to be treated like this. Something needs to be done," she said. Adult Protective Services said the person responsible for the care of the patients may be facing criminal neglect charges. Pidone was able to contact her uncle Tuesday. He is in a legitimate nursing home.

OK So Mrs. Pidone is upset because she cant find her uncle. That part is understandable.....sort of. As legal guardian it is her responsibility to ensure he is taken care of responsibly as well as knowing what is going on in his life. I feel she failed on both counts and is pawning off the blame on APS. So APS shuts down the shit hole this "loving nieece" placed him in. If the place was bad enough that it needed to be shut down then how could she put him in those horrible conditions? Lets play devil's advocate and assume that when she initially visited the facility (assuming she did) everything was on the up and up. A place cant spiral completely down the shitter in a matter of a day. Assuming she took time out of her day to visit him even occasionally she would have had to have gotten a sense that things were bad. Also this "home" was illegally run. Did she bother to check their credentials before she dumped her loved one there? So APS shuts down the facility and now she cant find her family member. Where was she before? Did the "home" not have a contact card for her? I understand how frustrating it must have been to not be able to find the man but obviously she didnt care too much about him before now. What was it time to cash one of his checks? She says she spent days calling around trying to find him. Calling?!?!?! GET THE FUCK UP OFF YOUR ASS AND GO DOWN TO THE APS OFFICE!!!! GO TO THE POLICE!!! She cared so much that she bothered to lift her finger to dial a phone. So much love there. APS shut down a "home" that needed to be shut down. So now her uncle was lost in the system. But really the poor man has been lost from his "family" since the sent him away. If APS hadn't have shut down this place and the poor guy died then they would get shit for that too. This lady needs to shut her fucking mouth and quit playing the victim. The only victim here are the countless elderly that become nothing but a memory not often remembered by their family and merely a number to the government.