Helen Porter was a patient at the Freedom Health Nursing Home. Ken Barker was a nurse who worked for Freedom Health. On July 30, 2017, Ms. Porter was in her room at the nursing home. At approximately 4:30 p.m., Ms. Porter, who was unable to walk without assistance, pressed the button in her room to ask for assistance. Nurse Barker answered that call at approximately 4:45. When he entered the room, Nurse Barker found that Ms. Porter had accidentally soiled herself. Upon observing this, Ken Barker became enraged and grabbed Ms. Porter by the hair, jerking her out of the chair in which she was sitting and began beating her about the head, kicking her andpunching her in the body, greatly wounding and bruising her. Ms. Porter filed a lawsuit against Freedom Health, seeking to hold the Nursing Home liable for the injuries inflicted on her by Nurse Barker.

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