Aide accused of brutally beating 95-year-old grandmother, who defended herself by scratching her back

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

Home security cameras allegedly captured Oluwanifemi Aborisade Dorothy Foy brutally beaten in her Harlem apartment in July, according to video shared with The Post.

Aborisade, of Queens, who was arrested Tuesday, was charged in Manhattan Supreme Court with two counts of second-degree assault, which carries a penalty of seven years in prison, and endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person. Was.

He has pleaded not guilty and is being held on $25,000 bail, according to court records.

According to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the women were arguing about changing Foy’s bedsheets when Ally began throwing items at her, punching her multiple times and hitting her with a metal kitchen utensil.

Foy, who uses a walker and an oxygen tank, can be seen in the footage begging and defending herself from a backscratcher.

“I called (the associate) and she said everything was OK,” Tiffany Mitchell, 43, one of Foy’s granddaughters, told The Post in July.

Then, she called her grandmother again and was stunned by what she heard.

Mitchell claimed, “I hear this woman in the background – it’s like Jekyll and Hyde – yelling abuse at him.”

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

The family told The Post that Foy, herself a home health aide, was heartbroken, hurt and traumatized by the incident.