Former SoCal nursing home worker sentenced to life for torturing, taunting elderly

Ex-worker sentenced to life for torturing elderly

LOS ANGELES — A former caregiver convicted of torturing, body-slamming and taunting elderly patients at an upscale Calabasas retirement home has been sentenced to life in prison.

Twenty-one-year-old Cesar Ulloa received the sentence Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. He was convicted in April of one count of torture and seven counts of elder abuse.

Witnesses testified that Ulloa body-slammed a mute 78-year-old woman, leaped from a dresser and landed both knees in an elderly man’s stomach and told another patient he “was sexing his daughter.”

Silverado Senior Living home residents, many suffering from dementia and other debilitating illnesses, were unable to report the abuse.