Good help is certainly hard to find these days. And one Florida home health aide whose job was to help an elderly man, proved that point when she left him in bad shape after he fell out of bed, and she went nighty night.

Beatrice Taylor, a 25-year-old who worked for Assisting Hands Home Health Care, was charged with one count aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person after her client died because of her failure to help him up after a fall, reports PEOPLE.

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the man had been receiving care from Good Shepherd Hospice beginning on August 14, 2024. His family paid for 24-hour hospice care, requiring two home heath aides. Taylor worked the night shift.

After the daytime aide left, Taylor went to sleep. She reportedly heard a thump around 1 a.m. She checked on the elderly man, who had fallen on the floor and his head was squeezed between a night table and the bed.

Taylor claims she tried to help him, but the man allegedly told her to leave him there. The home health aide did just that and went back to bed unbothered.

The woman also went against company policy by not alerting her employer or the police of the situation.

The woman woke up between 3:45 and 4:53 a.m., deputies said. By that time the man was unconscious. She talked to her parents for about 45 minutes. When she finally called police, an EMT worker overhead her say, “He was old anyway so what does it matter.”

Taylor was placed under arrest while professing she “didn’t kill that man.”

Taylor remains in jail on bond.

#Clique, our elderly population deserves better.