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The Beech Bottom nursing home felt a visitor acted in an unusual way toward a patient.
Story by Steven Centofanti
Beech Bottom -- Brooke County Sheriff Richard Ferguson says 81- year old William Jones was arrested for sexually assaulting a woman over the weekend.
A Brooke County nursing home called the police over the weekend because it felt a visitor acted inappropriately toward a female patient.
According to Mike Anderson, the President and Regional Manager of the Valley Haven Geriatric Center in Beech Bottom, William Jones went to the center on Sunday.
Anderson said he started acting in an unusual way toward the woman patient and staff felt they needed to intervene to help the elderly woman.
Anderson said the man and woman are family members.
The center is letting the police continue the investigation.
Sheriff Ferguson tells wtrf.com Williams was arrested and today is free on bond.
Ferguson says the two are distant relatives.
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