Care home worker charged after she ‘filmed herself smirking while peeling corpse’s eye open’
Ashley Mishay Williams was fired from her job, and has now been charged with abuse of a corpse
A care home worker was charged over claims she filmed herself peeling a dead body’s eye open while smirking for the camera. Ashley Mishay Williams is also said to have prodded female corpse for the twisted clip, which investigators say was filmed at The Brennity care home in Bay Minette, Alabama.
Williams was fired from her job as soon as her bosses were alerted to the video. Police began an investigation, but initially warned criminal charges were unlikely to follow over the corpse abuse clip.
They later said prosecutors had told them there was strong grounds for a criminal case, prompting them to charge Williams with abuse of a corpse, as well as drugs charges over an unspecified incident. Many of the patients at the home where she worked suffer from dementia.
Care home owner Sagora Senior Living told Fox10 they were cooperating fully with investigators, and urged people not to share Williams’ alleged corpse abuse clip further so as to spare the victim’s family further heartache.
A spokesman condemned the clip, saying: ‘First and foremost, we find the actions in this video to be completely unacceptable, inappropriate and not in line with our resident first philosophy that we strictly uphold at our communities.
‘We can confirm that this associate is no longer with Sagora Senior Living as we will not tolerate behavior like this.’ Williams made her latest court appearance on Friday, where prosecutors asked for her bond to be withdrawn.
It is unclear whether that application succeeded, and whether Williams remains out on bond ahead of her next court appearance.
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