Hialeah woman accused of abusing her 96-year-old mother NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

A woman from Hialeah faces charges of negligence and physical harm against her own mother, a 96-year-old woman who had been under her care since 2022.

It was the tenants of the alleged victim who noticed the apparent signs of violence on the elderly woman’s body.

The daughter of the victim, Elizabeth Benavides, 68, was arrested on Saturday.

According to the arrest report of Benavides, on several occasions the tenants had to feed the elderly woman because she told them she would go hours without eating. Additionally, they used to change her dirty diapers because her daughter did not do it.

From their rooms, at the back of the house, they would hear the elderly woman scream at night, and the next morning she would appear covered in bruises, prompting the tenants to contact the victim’s grandson and the accused’s nephew.

“My grandmother is in the hospital, but she is …