France investigates elder abuse
France investigates
Elder Abuse Thursday, March 17, 2011
One third of the attempts to scam the elderly from their own family
03/17/2011 8:00
Jean
-Paul Delevoye, Mediator of the Republic. AFP
One of the elders has over 80 years and is a major luxury residence against their will while your children are at the mansion he owns in an exclusive neighborhood of Paris . And another octogenarian grandpa in a nursing seedy still remembers when her son, not far short of 45 years and stopped, he stole the pension to buy video games.
Such cases are those that have reported more than 60 professionals and 120
organizations to protect the elderly as part of a recent mission organized by the Ombudsman of the Republic, one of the authorities exercising the functions of Ombudsman People in France and represents Jean-Paul Delevoye. The report lifts the veil on one of the hidden taboos of this country still rich: financial abuse of the elderly within the family.
now published report was released after an initial study in 2008, of the French section of the International Federation
Senior (FIAPA)
. Revealed that 32% of those over 65 have the feeling of being victims of financial abuse, and that 15% are convinced that they are cheating, plain and simple.
Now, at the request of professional judges and Public Assistance (Administration which includes hospitals and medical-social in France), the new report with data provided by elderly patients, who can tell their past experience, concentrated throw in the many ways that charges in France, the "family financial abuse
First observation: It is true that the scam to elderly still comes mainly from the classic con artists, such as professional criminals who pose as electricians.
One third of the attempts to scam the elderly from their own family
complaints Phone
But what is new and disturbing is that the mission of
Mediator of the Republic have confirmed that, indeed, at least third of the scam attempts from the same family of the elderly. This is evidenced by the complaints handled by the social service Allo Elderly Abuse, the first phone to callers scam elderly when they suffer by the family. This may be the "wild
occupation" of the old man's house for their offspring, as the case of wealthy octogenarian told by a police commission. The grandfather was confined for several months in an attic of the palace, while he listened to their children, company executives who wanted to keep the mansion, lavish feasts celebrated elsewhere in the house.
subsidies of between 680 euros and up to about 2,000, at the beginning of each month. That was the case of another elderly, poor this time, the victim of his own son addicted to video games and stopped, told by a judge.
"The people of the family who are responsible for a vulnerable elderly person can take advantage of having signature authority on your accounts to make expenditures for personal gain," he told the media one of the authors of the report,
Véronique Desjardins
" (citing the case of a grandchild, the only offspring of an octogenarian, she would only see the condition of the purchase of a motorcycle) to clear theft and scams constitutes a criminal offense. In this case involves the use of savings of the elderly to perform operations on the stock exchange, the fraudulent change of beneficiaries of life insurance or amendments will.
"typeable " and not "typed" criminal. Because, in fact, the Ombudsman's report of the Republic clearly detected device failures French legal and judicial become so easy these scams and swindles.
one hand, the robbery itself, within the family, in ascending or descending, . What goes up is not the number of judges dealing with these devices: they are still 80 in France.
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