Lawyer says Heritage Springs patient subjected to ‘utter cruelty’ in elder abuse lawsuit

LEWISBURG — A civil lawsuit was filed this week by one of the families involved in an extensive elder abuse case at Heritage Springs Memory Care in Lewisburg.

Attorney Erica C. Wilson, of Murray, Stone & Wilson, PLLC, in West Conshohocken, filed the 35-page document in Union County Court on behalf of patient Alice Longenberger and her family against the assisted living facility at 327 Farley Circle, Lewisburg, its management, building owners and two employees who were accused of abusing 17 residents. Those listed as defendants are Heritage Springs facility and corporation, administrator Tambra Speece, Business Manager Lennea Brown, employees Madison Laine Cox and a 17-year-old boy, property owner T-Ross Brothers, of Milton, and Todd and Tom Ross and Christopher Helmrich, of T-Ross.

“Over the last eight months, she (Longenberger) has been subjected to what can only be described as utter cruelty,” wrote Wilson. “On several occasions, Ms. Longenberger was positioned by the staff of Heritage Spring Memory Care Center in compromising, unflattering and embarrassing positions, and then photographed and videotaped for the public to see.”

The lawsuit alleges one count of negligence and one count of breach of fiduciary duty against the Heritage defendants; one count of negligence per se against all defendants; and one count of negligence and one count of battery against the two employees. A jury trial is demanded and judgment of at least $250,000 in damages is being sought, according to court documents.

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