On May 7th, 2025, the victim's mother conducted an interview at the police station after noticing unexplained injuries on her disabled daughter's face. After reviewing footage from the family's home surveillance cameras, she discovered evidence suggesting the injuries were caused by a caregiver. >> You just step on the other side, single chair. >> Yes, of course. So um again uh as detailed as possible just kind of get some more information so that we can figure out what proper steps need to be taken moving forward from there. So um >> we have good nurses. It's a shame. >> It is. It is. So >> um if you need anything just let one of them know. They'll help you out and we'll get from there. Okay. >> I'm kind of emotional a little bit. I use the exacts anyway. >> And I was sleeping cuz at night I cannot sleep much. >> I'm sorry. >> Okay. >> That's Detective Turner. He's the lead investigator for this. Okay. So, he's decided this. He has some things that he needs to take care of and we're just here helping. That's all we're >> I know you guys work together. >> Whenever he's done, he'll come in. >> I appreciate what he's doing, what you guys have. Of >> course. I do. >> So, we all kind of We read the initial report that the officer took. We saw some of the videos that were uploaded and we just want to get a little bit more information. Um, I know it had been mentioned that she had been working with your daughter for like a year maybe. >> It's a year like around this time like April. >> Mhm. >> In uh April into Yeah. April into May. I don't remember exact date. Uh, I didn't get to go that back because something in my mind was like go back go back more months [snorts] to see if those days that my daughter got very congested or more sick [clears throat] >> would trigger something like that. >> Of course. >> Yeah. >> And this is April 2024. >> Yes. Yes. It's barely a year if not the year right now at this moment, you know, at this time. Um through the videos I managed [snorts] to like by minutes to see what was the the worst interactions and what happened in each >> because it was a lot of times that you know always at night you see dark but then there's interactions that are very very clear and >> very meaningful. >> Okay. for us >> any interactions that we don't know about yet like that cuz we have video of some >> all that you have contains all this >> cuz it was barely for some reason since I go to bed like at 9 9:30ish 9:30 on she stayed at it at it going at it then pause for a minute if I guess she sat down then she would come back and be very upset changing like like her voice was like very like mad to my daughter and my daughter cannot I know you guys if you know or if you don't know she doesn't speak for herself she can she's paraph quadriplegic nonverbal since birth >> cereopulsy her sight is like blurry like almost blind >> so everything she goes by hearing [clears throat] and and she at some point she didn't know where it was going to the next thing was going to come from. Um she couldn't defend it herself but to resist. That's what she did the whole time. Resist and stay alive. >> Yeah. >> Did anybody from Via Healthcare reach out to you? Do you have any contact information? >> Yeah. that that day [snorts] when we the thing is that this happened Friday into Saturday. My husband is like, "Let me go downstairs because it's 6:20. So, she knows she can go. >> We're home. We don't have any nerves tonight or today. So, it's on us." So, he said, "Let me go ahead forward, go downstairs and relieve her." Yeah. >> When he goes down, the demeanor was horrible because he felt like, "Why is she upset? We know her. >> Why is she upset?" All of a sudden, she didn't acknowledge she he was in the room and saying [clears throat] hi to my daughter. >> He was like, "Something is not right here." And that gave him the gut feeling. >> So, he kept going and telling me three times like, "We need to talk to that nurse. She's rough. She's action rough in front of me." And I said, "Really?" And that's what triggered for us to start looking >> cuz we trusted. And whenever I would talk to the camera like, "Hey, I forgot something to tell you, hey, I don't want to scare you, but I'm here." >> But >> so she knew that there was a >> Yes. Yes. I used to talk through the camera. >> They know when they came out. Vanna knows the agency. >> I signed a document because they know enough cameas. >> Yeah. stating I don't remember what it is before but like everybody's aware all the nurses are aware other two nurses are great. >> Mhm. [snorts] >> One used to work for the school system as retired you know that I got good ones. >> Yeah. >> And never never even you trust and you can be [snorts] betrayed. We trusted and but the demeanor of this young woman was like >> completely unacceptable. completely unacceptable because on the 26th when we check back from this >> it was starting a demeanor change some changes in her behavior that I noticed >> in your daughter or the the healthcare workers >> in the health the healthcare workers but a previous week >> Mhm. And the demeanor was like um a little rough and >> bushy like but nothing like this. Nothing like making bleed trying to smother none of that. I don't know where that came from. >> Did you guys end up having a conversation with her? >> No because when we start looking at this is the the she was gone. My husband >> had the gut feeling we need to talk to her. I said and I even verbalize I'm like next Friday I I would look next Friday I will talk to her >> and but I never thought about go to the videos and when let's say Sunday night >> Saturday we're trying to recuperate. I don't have an idea what she went through. >> I'm home with her >> and she seemed okay. We gave her all she needed, suction, all she needed. And she was pretty comfortable. But I noticed she was sleeping, sleeping, sleeping because she didn't sleep that whole night. When you see >> Yeah. >> 9 into the morning, she kept going. At some point, she threw pillows at the walls. She threw the tape that I don't know why I feel bad now because the doctors told me she has a laceration in her eye. is because sleeping these kids tend to open and the how do you call it the breathing treatments and they dry the eye >> and that create creates a laceration that would trigger a I don't know some kind of infection. So we have different uh drops and an ointment for the eye. So all that the taping that you see in the video was allowed not that long but just to keep her here >> but not to rip off and put back and and then at some point she's >> putting it here putting here and >> Okay. >> We never said nothing like that. >> Mhm. [clears throat] >> It's not ordered. >> How does How does your daughter uh breathe? Does she have >> She doesn't have a Drake. Thank god. Thank God. >> No. Thank God she doesn't. That would be more work. because you have to be constantly watching for that. >> But no, my daughter's on breathe on her own. So she needs oxygen once in a while. >> Mhm. >> When it goes down below 92, >> she was all night that night when what for what I can see 96. >> That that was not for her to get so aggravated or so upset with her. And then she would tell her, "What are you doing? Make her bleed. clean her up and then boom back again. What are you doing? And then cousin, >> you said make her bleed. It she was I >> because she would go like this and the all this got like solid and like when you get a beat up >> and then with the more friction the more my daughter got worse. I'm glad that my daughter kept breathing that my daughter didn't pass out but at some point she cover her and then she will be like like with the railing >> and that screw torture with the tape. The tape was not for that. >> She taped it to her mouth >> to the cheeks and you see that on the video and then the mouth >> and then >> and and at some point you can hear her saying like um what do you call it? >> Um stop breathing or or like like like not stop breathing. I'm trying to remember what it says. But you see it on the video that she's kind of talking to her like don't don't you know don't move don't move or don't breathe. >> So she she breathes through her mouth and nose. Um she breathes on her own. There's moments in these videos where Nia has like a rag. >> That's the rag that she tried to >> and she's trying to suffocate her in that moment. So her hands are over her nose and mouth. Okay. And and that's you're saying that she at that moment she's trying to suffocate her. [snorts] >> I I say so because it was the intent. I see it there. And besides the intent, it was not enough. She would do the in >> the attempt. >> And besides the attempt, she could go back cleaning >> and back at it. Like it was not enough for her. >> Mhm. >> Her behavior was like looking for something else to do, looking for something else. How do looking through the room with what else >> would Would for any reason of her process to maybe try and like maybe clean her from that with a rag like that cuz I know the video doesn't look like she's that's her. >> She she cleaned her around along the video she's cleaning. That's what I'm saying. Even though she [clears throat] was doing her job within her job, >> this the the the moments of >> she went off completely from nurse >> to something else. >> Yeah. >> From nurse to attacker. That's how I perceived it. The demeanor, the way of talking was different. Mhm. >> So the anger amount >> that build up from this >> from this to this and here was the critical part. >> Mhm. >> That my daughter had to resist. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> My daughter, she was like, "What are you doing? What are you doing? She doesn't talk. What are you expecting for her to slap you back?" >> She she's uncapable of doing that. >> She doesn't move. Oh. I mean what was the intention? Then come next Friday come on the next Friday and kill her. What was it? Do this go home and then come me not noticing. I would I cannot imagine me not looking up to the videos. If we would have done this, [laughter] what would be? As a parent, you knew you and your husband knew something was not right. You did the right thing. >> You had And he told me three times we had to talk to her. I said, "Next Friday, I'll talk to him because I'm not seeing this yet." >> Yeah. >> When I saw this, I got nauseous. They had to take care of me >> because I said, "This is too much." >> No, it is. That's >> the nurses are screaming in the morning because when they saw that I know there's one that feels good guys and baby to her cuz they're so attached and they love her so much and they know he cannot do anything. >> Yeah. Since >> I'm sorry. >> No, you're okay. >> I'm trying to get my composure. >> That's okay. But it's hard when it's your child. >> Since this has happened, has she received any kind of um medical care that >> the she's going for appointments that I set up tomorrow? She got neurology. She's got um a sonog um sonogram, something like that. Okay. >> A checkup. And then we go to the eye doctor to check that she's okay. And the what is the other one? Respiratory is not there yet because they didn't have a space. >> But I'm going to try to talk to see if they can squeeze me in to the situation to see if at least you can shake her, listen to her, see or send for a scan or something >> for the breathing. >> You said she's I'm sorry to interrupt you. You said she's on a respirator where it it um shows the her respirations >> respirations and everything. Do you have that like on an app or something? So where you could see her respiration is they have it internally the company that provides that item to us but at the same time she would check the nurses have a track the agency has track of it. >> Okay perfect. [snorts] >> So um we do you have anything else that you want? that I see here because when I did it at home, I did in a paper like that, it was all scrubbed. But when we organized it video by video, looking at the video, tape to the mouth, rack to the mouth, tape to the mouth, it was more than one time. That's not a mistake of one. she snore or mouth breathe loudly or anything that would be like a >> that's what the bipop is for to assist when she's on the bip that helps her >> right >> and her apnea is not as bad like like some grown men or women that snore loud no she doesn't bother with nothing she cannot talk she cannot she barely was able to moan in there >> right >> cuz she doesn't express anything, >> right? I'm I'm asking specifically so that I can when I write this up, I can show that like >> she isn't audable through her mouth. So, >> the reasoning of >> taping her mouth is uncalled for. >> Nobody ever No, it was not talked about, mentioned, directed, ordered. Mhm. >> Um, >> do you have a list of her like uh of the of the um >> the duties? >> The duties. I know listed them, but but >> the duties is through the agency >> because when they're trained and they train her, >> she goes with another one that's older like been with us 5 years or something and that one will tell her you do this, you do this, you do it and she's very thorough with what they have to do. still at the beginning any mistake and I'm going to be honest with any mistake >> this new girl did I went to her and said thank you sir I I went to her and said >> hey we're supposed to the filter for the bipab is not going in the water cuz she had her own night by mistake in the water and that happens I said she's new oh she said remind me am I doing it right Yeah, >> she was eager to for corrections like those simple things. And I said, "No, go here because if not, she's not getting anything. She's getting steam for a long night >> that we understand those type of things >> but not what we saw. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. So, um I am [clears throat] Detective Turner, uh I've been working on this report all day, so I've been trying to gather as much information as I can. Um uh one of my counterparts is going to be here in a few minutes and they'll come in and sit with me and just kind of like, um go through the interview process with me. Okay. All right. Um, I can't control like the temperature and hearing because [laughter] of my nerves, >> but I don't want you I don't want you to be nervous. We're just going to have a conversation. Okay. Um, usually I have more stuff here, but I didn't have it. Uh, I I [snorts] choose to print it out. So, um, do you have your ID on you? >> ID. >> Okay. [snorts] >> Okay. Um uh I'm just going to go over some preliminary information. Just trying to do my fact gathering. Okay. It's my first conversation that I've had with you. All right. Um you have been read your perjury warning. >> No, sir. >> Okay. Have you read you been read your Miranda warning? >> No, sir. >> Okay. So, um this is your perjury warning. Well, uh you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you uh in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present with you before and during uh questioning. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent you at county expense before any question if you wish. If you give up your right to remain silent and later wish to stop answering questions, no further questions will be asked. This is your perjury warning. I'm a swore law enforcement officer in the state of Florida. As such, I am empowered to place persons under oath for the taking of official statements and records. Uh, the knowing and willful giving of any false statement under oath is a crime against the state of Florida. At this time, please raise your right hand. Do you swear and affirm that the statement you are about to give to be the truth and nothing but the truth to the best of your knowledge? I help you God. >> Yes. >> All right. So [clears throat] um after understanding your uh [clears throat] situation um I want to try and keep this is as like low low impact as possible, right? I don't want you to become upset. I know it's an emotional thing that you're dealing with if you've never been in in an interview room before or anything like that. So, I want to try and keep this just a normal conversation as you would be talking to like a friend or a coworker or a supervisor. Okay. So, um Nia, where do you work? >> Um I was I have two employments. >> Okay. >> Um Team Select. >> Team Select. >> Um home healthcare. And I'll be on the home. >> I'll be on. >> A B E A N A home. >> And what do you do for for team Select? >> Um I'm for both companies. I'm I'm a licensed practical nurse. >> So LPN? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. And uh what is your what is your main job? Like what is your main job function for team select? >> Like what do you mean? Like I just >> like what do you do? >> I go to patients home and I give them care. >> Okay. So you go to patients home. Okay. And that's Yes. Okay. Um, how long have you been doing this? >> Um, I've been at Team Select for about four years and I was at Aviana for two a little over two and a four. >> Okay. Um, you're you went to school for these for the LPN? >> Yes, sir. I went to Ocula Technical College. And they gave you a degree certificate. >> Yeah, I got a certificate. Um, and I completed all my hours. So then I went on to take my board exam. >> Good. Are you in school? >> No, sir. Okay. Um, so on May 2nd, um, who are you working for on May 2nd? >> I'll be on. Okay. >> Was there an incident that happened on May 2nd? >> At this time, I would like to revoke or adjust my rights and say that I will not like to speak without an attorney prison. All right. This will be your driver's license. Okay. >> Just give me a few minutes and get right with you. >> All right, then. So, you want me to place under arrest? Okay. >> Yes, sir. You want me to input my >> We'll do that in a second. Okay. Come on. >> Try and keep it just like that. Okay. This way. >> Sorry. >> Turn the slip on. Okay. >> Charged with aggravated um disabled person's abuse. A disabled adult abuse. Okay. She was charged with aggravated abuse of a disabled adult. Share your thoughts in the comments below.