Caregiver charged with neglect after woman found dead inside Forest Park home
Neglect charges filed in Forest Park woman's death
A grim discovery for Forest Park officers performing a welfare check this week. Police found a 63-year-old wheelchair bound woman dead inside her Beecher Street home. Her certified nursing assistant is now facing charges in connection with Carolyn Hunter's death. Police say CNA Amanda McClure confessed to neglecting her client. Police say McClure told them she was supposed to care for hunter five days a week.
FOREST PARK, Ga. - A certified nursing assistant faces neglect charges after investigators say the woman she was hired to care after was found dead in her home on Thursday.
Forest Park police officers were performing a welfare check at Carolyn Hunter's home, located in the 4400 block of Beecher Street, around noon Thursday, when they discovered the woman's body inside.
Amanda McClure, who is a CNA, was arrested hours later and charged with neglect in connection with Hunter's death.
"We found out that she was under a home care program where she was assigned to a CNA named Ms. Amanda McClure. She confessed to neglect of Ms. Hunter and was taken into custody," said Forest Park Police Sgt. Raquelle Cantrell.
Forest Park Police Department (FOX 5)
Police said McClure told investigators she was supposed to care for Hunter, who was in a wheelchair, five days a week.
"She said she was not there during those times to care for her, being that was her job description," Sgt. Cantrell said. "That's when she stated she neglected Ms. Hunter."
A CNA employed by Epiphany Healthcare was arrested for neglect after the body of a woman she was supposed to be caring for was found on March 2, 2023. (FOX 5)
McClure was employed by Epiphany Healthcare.
No one at the Tucker office would comment on the case.
Police are awaiting autopsy results to determine how Hunter died and if McClure will face additional charges.