Trial under way for aide charged with abuse of elderly resident

YOUNGSTOWN —A prosecutor and defense attorney agree a series of events involving a former aide led to the broken hip of an 87-year-old assisted living patient three weeks before his death.

Both sides disagree, however, on what those events are.

Iindia Weatherly, 20, of Staatz Drive, is on trial before a jury in the courtroom of Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. She is charged with patient abuse, a fourth-degree felony charge, which carries a possible six- to 18-month prison term.

Opening statements werre made today by J. Michael Thompson, an assistant county prosecutor, and Attorney Mark Lavelle, representing Weatherly.

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