JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A California resident has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing a photo of a 3-year-old child being sexually abused following a joint Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jacksonville investigation. Henry Obdulio Cordon, 39, of Antioch, California, was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Cordon was arrested at his residence May 16, 2019. He pleaded guilty to the offense on June 14, 2024. ...
Some of these include: Our law firm has represented hundreds of people charged with elder abuse in California. We have succeeded in getting these cases dismissed or reduced to lesser...
Elder abuse cases typically arise from neglect of an older person who is in the care of others, or the financial taking advantage of such a person. Each type of case has different issues we focus upon. In the typical elder abuse case involving neglect, we ask the family to give us proof of a decline in physical state, sometime reflected in photos, other times just in charts and records from doctors and the home they live in. What we focus upon in neglect cases is the unexplained rapid decline of...
The United States Census Bureau projected in 2000 that California's elderly population will have doubled by 2025 to 6.4 million - a larger growth rate than any other state. The California Department of Finance projects that the number of California residents aged 65 and older--those who are most likely to need nursing homes or other long term care--will nearly double between 2010 and 2030.1 · Many residents of both licensed and unlicensed facilities suffer from dementia and may be given danger...
What is Elder Abuse? In California, elders are defined as persons 60 years and older. Under California law, elder abuse can be both criminal and civil. Criminal elder abuse occurs when a person kno...
the California Assembly when it came up for a vote this week. Under current law, health care providers face misdemeanor charges if they don’t report suspected abuse to police, even if...
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sexual abuse, California is seeing a flood of new litigation. Spurred by a 2020 change in state law, thousands of lawsuits alleging abuse as far back as the 1940s have been filed against...
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