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Aide charged with viciously beating grandma, 95, who defended herself with backscratcher

By
Deirdre Bardolf
Published Oct. 12, 2024
Updated Oct. 12, 2024, 11:35 a.m. ET

A home health care aide accused of beating a 95-year-old grandmother in her care was arrested and ♔charged this week for the alleged assault.

Home security cameras allegedly captured Oluwanifemi Aborisade viciously beating Dorothy Foye in her Harlem apartment in July, according to video shared with𒉰 The Post.

Aborisade, of Queens, arrested Tuesday, was charged in Manhattan Supreme Court with two counts of sec🎐ond-degree assault, which can carry up o seven years in prison, and one count of endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person.

Home security cameras allegedly captured a health aide attacking a 95-year-old woman in her Harlem apartment in July, according to video shared with The Post.
Home security cameras allegedly captured a health aide attacking a 95-year-old woman in her Harlem apartment in July, according to video shared with The Post. Courtesy of Dorothy Foye
Oluwanifemi Aborisade, from Queens, was arrested in connection to the attack and is facing two counts of second-degree assault.
Oluwanifemi Aborisade, from Queens, was arrested in connection to the attack and is facing two counts of second-degree assault. Courtesy of Dorothy Foye
The women were arguing about changing Foye’s bedsheets when the aide started throwing items at her, and hit her with a metal kitchen pot, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The women were arguing about changing Foye’s bedsheets when the aide started throwing items at her, and hit her with a metal kitchen pot, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Courtesy of Dorothy Foye

She pleaded not guilty and is being held on $25,000 bail, accordinᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ🥀g to court records.

The women were arguing about changing Foye’s bedsheets when the aide started throwing items at her charge, punched her multiple times and hit her with a meta𓃲l kitchen pot, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Foye, who ♊uses a walker and oxygen tank, could be seen in the footage begging and defending herself with a backsc💛ratcher.

“I called the [aide] and she said everything w🌱as ✤fine,” Tiffany Mitchell, 43, one of Foye’s granddaughters, told The Post in July.

The women were arguing about changing Foye’s bedsheets when the aide started throwing items at her, and hit her with a metal kitchen pot, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Dorothy Foye, who uses a walker and oxygen tank, could be seen in the footage begging and defending herself with a backscratcher. J.C. Rice
Foye, who was a home health aide herself, was left bruised, aching and traumatized from the incident, the family told The Post.
Foye, who was a home health aide herself, was left bruised, aching and traumatized from the incident, the family told The Post. J.C. Rice
"I hear this woman in the background -- it's like Jekyll and Hyde -- screaming profanities at her," Tiffany Mitchell, 43, one of Foye’s granddaughters, told The Post in July.
“I hear this woman in the background — it’s like Jekyll and Hyde — screaming profanities at her,” Tiffany Mitchell, 43, one of Foye’s granddaughters, told The Post in July. CBS New York

Then, she redialed her grandmother and was stꦅunned by what she h𓆏eard.

“I hear this woman in the background — it’s like Jekyll and Hyde — screaming profanities at her,” Mitchell claimed.

Aborisade, who was hired through the Brooklyn-based home health🐬care service Medflyt at Home, allegedly threw water and garbage all over the floor before fleeing the scene, the DA said. 

Foye, who was a home health aide herself, was left bruised, aching and traumatized from th💎e incident, the🍰 family told The Post.