Woman dumps her 96-year-old aunt off at homeless shelter in time to take off for her vacation to Disney World

[Admin]

Granny dumping or just a misunderstanding spun out of control by the media? Either way this makes me remember that Disney marketing campaign where they'd ask famous peope who just won something what they were going to do next... To which they'd always give a big smile and say "I'm going to Disneyland!"

*Announcer* You just dumped off your needy old aunt off at a homeless shelter... What are you going to do now?
*Woman* "I'm going to Disney World!"

Original story is here.

Woman, 96, left at local shelter

Officials call it ‘dumping’; niece disputes that

A North Carolina woman left her 96-year-old aunt at a local Salvation Army shelter, then left for a Walt Disney World vacation with no plans to return for her, officials said Wednesday.

Now the niece, who disputes officials’ version of events, could face criminal charges in what officials are calling one of the worst local cases of “granny dumping” that they’ve ever seen.

“To take someone hundreds of miles and just dump them, that’s at the far end of the spectrum,” said M. Ashley Butler of Aging Safely Inc., Ruth Smith’s emergency temporary guardian.

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“They couldn’t wait to leave, got the bags out of the car as fast as they could and literally pushed her out of the car,” Butler said of Edwards and her foster children who were with her.

But Edwards, reached by cell phone in Orlando, said that’s not what happened.

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[Charleene]

This happens alot more than people think. I had to take a training class in order to legally care for Scott and there were quite a few other people there who work at homes and shelters and they say that people get dumped all the time out of the blue. They also said that if you call first, they wont take them in. So, if you call assisted living facilities and everyone turns you down, you call the shelters and get turned down, and you cannot do it anymore yourself, then what are you to do? If you drop them at a shelter they WILL get care, but there are consequences for it. People have made arrangements and then when it comes time to drop the person off, the person who you made the arrangements WITH arent there so they think its a dump and run when it isnt.

I dont know who to believe because I can see it from both sides of the fence. I would want more than hearsay before I went about making any legal choices on the matter.