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| Panorama care home abuse probe: Women admit assault | Panorama care home abuse probe: Women admit assault |
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| Three women accused of assaulting and harassing elderly people at a care home have pleaded guilty to assault. | Three women accused of assaulting and harassing elderly people at a care home have pleaded guilty to assault. |
| The care workers were charged following an undercover investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme into the Old Deanery care home near Braintree. | |
| Anita Ray, Lorna Clark and Adeshola Adewura will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court in February. | Anita Ray, Lorna Clark and Adeshola Adewura will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court in February. |
| The Panorama programme, broadcast in April 2014, showed an elderly woman with dementia being slapped and goaded. | The Panorama programme, broadcast in April 2014, showed an elderly woman with dementia being slapped and goaded. |
| Essex Police started the investigation of the abuse after detectives viewed the programme. | |
| A care worker who was seen to slap a resident was sacked previously after an eyewitness made a statement to independent investigators. | |
| In April 2014 Old Deanery's owners Anglia Retirement Homes said managers were "shocked and saddened by allegations made by the BBC's Panorama programme of inappropriate behaviour by some members of staff". |