Nursing Home Worker Jailed for Posting Graphic Patient Pics on Facebook

Social media nabs another law-breaker.  An Oregon nursing home worker is heading to jail after posting pictures of patients on Facebook.

FOX News Radio’s Lisa Lacerra has details:

The 26-year-old nursing assistant, convicted of invading personal privacy.  She was accused of taking graphic pictures of patients using bed pans at the Regency Pacific Nursing & Rehab Center near Portland, Oregon and posting them on Facebook.  The pictures date back to April of last year.

She spent eight days in jail, and must write a thousand-word apology to a patient that the judge says should be an insightful look at why the defendant did what she did.  If it doesn’t meet that standard, the judge ruled she could be charged with violating her probation.  And she’s forbidden from working in a job that would require her to work with children or the elderly for two years.

Lisa Lacerra, FOX News Radio.