JACKSON – The sister of a caregiver – now jailed for exploitation and charges of manslaughter – has also been arrested and charged with exploiting a vulnerable patient in her care. Elviolet Brooks, 28, of Canton, was arrested on Sept. 24, by investigators with the Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Division.
Brooks had been indicted by the Hinds County grand jury on one count of felony exploitation for allegedly accepting $674 to care for a patient, but then failing to provide adequate shelter, food and medication to the patient, resulting in the hospitalization of the patient.
Hood said Brooks took over the money from a resident that was being cared for in a personal care home owned by her sister, Stephanie Fields. Fields is currently in jail for stealing the identity of an elderly man – while working as his caregiver – and obtaining several credit cards using his name and Social Security number.
Fields charged more than $6,700 in the man’s name and attempted to charge and additional $2,000 before being caught.
Fields is also a co-defendant in the death of a vulnerable person, Janis Hollins, that died in her personal care home. Fields’ former employee, Eugenia Johnson, was found guilty of manslaughter for Hollins’ death after she threw water on Hollins and left her in a room with no heat. Officials said temperatures outside were below freezing.
Johnson also shoved Hollins to the ground and stomped her head with her foot.
The coroner’s report listed Hollins’ death as a homicide adding that she froze to death.
If Brooks is found guilty of her exploitation charges, she faces 10 years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
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