POSTED 9:42 PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019, BY PEGGY LEE, UPDATED AT 11:07PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A nursing home aide is accused of assaulting a woman in her care in Wilkes-Barre.
Police arrested Berianne Smith, 24, from Wilkes-Barre on charges that she attacked that resident.
Wilkes-Barre police say it was inside the Allied Services Meade Street Skilled Nursing facility on South Meade Street that a nursing home aide attacked a resident living here.
Officers were called to former Little Flower Manor Saturday evening after another aide told them he witnessed Smith assault that resident around 2:15 p.m. that afternoon.