Family sues nursing home over male stripper
A Long Island family is suing a nursing home after discovering a photo of its 85-year-old mother stuffing a dollar bill into the briefs of a male stripper. Franklin Youngblood says his mother, Bernice, who suffers from dementia, doesn’t remember the “entertainment event” featuring the stripper, which was arranged by the home’s staff. The lawsuit calls the brief-stuffing a form of “abuse.”
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