A carer suspected of raping a 95-year-old woman in an nursing home

The families have been summoned in an emergency and will be received this Thursday to discuss the situation.

In Lorient (Morbihan), a caregiver from the municipal nursing home in Kervénanec is currently in police custody.

Investigators suspect him of having raped a resident of the retirement home, reports

.

According to the daily, the man in his fifties had recently been an employee of the Ehpad.

He is suspected of having raped a 95-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease.

According to

, it was another employee of the structure who caught the man in the act and alerted the police.

The caregiver was immediately arrested.

The victim's family filed a complaint, as did the city of Lorient, which brought a civil action.

• nursing home

• Alzheimer's

• Lorient

• Brittany

• Rape

• Sexual violence

• Retirement home

• Company