It has been a fairly harrowing week for crimes involving the elderly.
First there was the incredibly sad story of Ernest Rayfield. He’s the 88-year-old Springfield man charged with fatally stabbing his ailing wife. They had been married for more than 60 years. She had been struggling in the throes of Alzheimer’s for years. He told police, who found him kneeling over his dead wife’s body, that he simply “had had enough.”
His family gathered in Springfield District Court yesterday as he made his first appearance on murder charges. He waived his hearing. There were lots of tears. Just too sad.
Now we get word of Steven Molin. The 58-year-old Darby man is believed to have checked his elderly mother out of the Sterling Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Media and drove her to Maryland.
That’s when things went haywire.
Police now charge that Molin ran over his 85-year-old mother. Several times. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say Molin indicated she had fallen out of his car. They weren’t buying it.
He now faces murder charges.
Like I said, just a very tough week.
First there was the incredibly sad story of Ernest Rayfield. He’s the 88-year-old Springfield man charged with fatally stabbing his ailing wife. They had been married for more than 60 years. She had been struggling in the throes of Alzheimer’s for years. He told police, who found him kneeling over his dead wife’s body, that he simply “had had enough.”
His family gathered in Springfield District Court yesterday as he made his first appearance on murder charges. He waived his hearing. There were lots of tears. Just too sad.
Now we get word of Steven Molin. The 58-year-old Darby man is believed to have checked his elderly mother out of the Sterling Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Media and drove her to Maryland.
That’s when things went haywire.
Police now charge that Molin ran over his 85-year-old mother. Several times. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say Molin indicated she had fallen out of his car. They weren’t buying it.
He now faces murder charges.
Like I said, just a very tough week.
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