JACKSON – An Amory man is scheduled to appear in court this month on charges he allegedly stole $100,000 from a family member living in a nursing home. John C. McKissack, 55, was arrested in July after being indicted by the Lee County Grand Jury on 19 counts of exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
According to Attorney General Jim Hood, McKissack took advantage of his relative, considered a “vulnerable person”, by taking the funds – for his own personal use – from the resident's bank account without that person's knowledge and consent.
McKissack reportedly took the funds from June 2009 through December 2010.
Hood said the Mississippi statute defines a “vulnerable person” as “a person, whether a minor or adult, whose ability to perform the normal activities of daily living or to provide for his or her own care or protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation or improper sexual contact is impaired due to a mental, emotional, physical or developmental disability or dysfunction, or brain damage or the infirmities of aging.
The term “vulnerable person” also includes all residents or patients, regardless of age, in a care facility.”
McKissack's bond was set at $50,000 which he posted and was released.