Residential Care Center Director Acquitted After 9 Years for ‘Joke’ Involving Anal Aerosol Therapy on Resident (90): “Verdict Does Justice to Who He Is”

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Nine years after employees of residential care center De Zathe in Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, played a distasteful ‘prank’ on a 90-year-old patient, the director has been fully acquitted. The man had been director of the residential care center for 31 years, but had to appear before the judge. The Court of Appeal in Ghent has now ruled that he is not at fault. “The events took place entirely without his knowledge or involvement,” says his lawyer,…