Upstate woman guilty in elder abuse case that left father at 73 lbs
Sep 30, 2026
An Upstate New York woman who was paid to care for her elderly father was convicted of felony elder abuse after police found him weighing just 73 pounds and living in filth with a locked refrigerator nearby, according to the Schenectady County District Attorney’s Office.Prosecutors said Christine
Jackson of Schenectady took her father out of a Bronx nursing home in 2023 and collected payments as his caregiver while his weight dropped from 145 pounds to about half that amount. ...read more read less