Disability service provider New Horizons declines to comment on alleged assault of 78-year old female group home resident

Ian Kirkwood
Updated April 14 2021 - 9:19am, first published 5:30am
Marea Bourke and Judy Bourke at an Angelman Syndrome conference in 2018.
Marea Bourke and Judy Bourke at an Angelman Syndrome conference in 2018.

POLICE are investigating an allegation that a non-verbal 78-year-old woman was punched in the "upper belly" by a female carer in a group home at Corlette.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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