Part-owner of Phoenix adult care home gets 21 years for fatally beating a patient in 2020
PHOENIX (AP) — A part-owner of a Phoenix-based adult care home has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for the beating death of a patient in 2020, authorities announced Thursday.
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office said 55-year-old Valer Catuna received the maximum allowable sentence for the offense.
State prosecutors said Catuna originally was charged by a grand jury with second-degree murder and vulnerable adult abuse in the death of William Griswold, but ultimately pleaded guilty to manslaughter in May.
Griswold, 53, was a patient at the Artemis Adult Care Home from December 2019
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Authorities said Catuna didn’t call emergency medical services for nine hours and Griswold died from his injuries sometime that evening.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced last month the formation of a new Elder Affairs Unit to combat fraud and abuse against the state’s vulnerable adults.