{"id":4974,"date":"2018-02-01T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2018-02-01T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:58:23","slug":"93-year-old-woman-handcuffed-and-thrown-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"93-year-old woman handcuffed and thrown in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Florida, USA.<\/span><\/strong> A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and thrown in jail after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4735\" title=\"Old woman handcuffed and jailed photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Old-woman-handcuffed-and-jailed-photo-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Old woman handcuffed and jailed photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juanita Fitzgerald<\/strong>, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested after she said the National Church Residences\u2019 Franklin House housing community had decided to \u201cput her out\u201d after blaming her for mould in her apartment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police said she was given notice of her eviction, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.<\/p>\n<p>According to a police report, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: \u201cUnless you carry me out of here, I\u2019m not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Lake County sheriff\u2019s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.<\/p>\n<p>l<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fitzgerald was spared having to spend her 94th birthday behind bars after a judge handed her over to a caregiver on Thursday. Her birthday was last month.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Twinem said she also complained about mould in her apartment, but the facility had found none following testing.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fitzgerald, who was interviewed in jail while dressed in an orange jumpsuit, tearfully refuted the claims. Asked about why she would not pay the rent, the woman, who was handcuffed and appeared to have bruises up her arms, said of a housing facility employee: \u201cShe wouldn&#8217;t take it, that woman blamed me for the mould.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI paid my September rent and when she decided she was going to put me out, she wouldn&#8217;t accept any rent after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The housing facility said officials had tried to contact Ms Fitzgerald\u2019s family several times and had reached out to agencies including the Homeless Coalition and the Family and Children\u2019s Services of Lake County. She allegedly refused them all.<\/p>\n<p>Terri Goldberg, a Franklin House resident, told WKMG: \u201cI feel like everything was done that could possibly be done to help her. I feel a lot of this was brought on herself.\u201d <strong>(9MSN News)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida, USA. A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and thrown in jail after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent. Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested after she said the National Church Residences\u2019 Franklin House housing community had decided to \u201cput her out\u201d after blaming her for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}