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- A Moab senior care employee was arrested and accused of sexually abusing a 93-year-old resident.
- Michael Bryan Sudbury was booked for investigation of forcible sexual abuse.
MOAB — An employee at a senior care center in Moab was arrested Tuesday and accused of sexually abusing a 93-year-old resident.
Michael Bryan Sudbury, 58, was booked into the Grand County Jail for investigation of forcible sexual abuse, abuse of a vulnerable adult and lewdness.
Sudbury worked at the Canyonlands Care Center, 390 Williams Way. On Tuesday, the daughter of a 93-year-old woman who resides at the facility contacted police to report possible abuse.
The woman told investigators she installed a nanny camera in her elderly mother's room. The camera "is a blink camera system that is motion activated. The event is captured over multiple videos," according to a police booking affidavit.
A series of six videos show Sudbury inappropriately touching the woman on Sunday night, the affidavit alleges.
Police contacted the head administrator at the facility who said she had already been contacted by the victim's family and "placed Sudbury on administrative suspension, pending an internal investigation and that they are planning on terminating Sudbury," according to the affidavit.
The administrator then provided police with text messages between her and Sudbury in which she asked him what had happened and he claimed the victim "asked him to sit down for awhile on the side of the bed and began to talk about her past. After listening to the victim for a while, Sudbury then left the room," the affidavit states.
Police then went to Sudbury's residence to question him.
"Upon making contact with Sudbury, I requested him to complete a written statement of the events that transpired. Sudbury refused," according to the affidavit.
Additional forensic testing was pending on Wednesday. Police say their office was also contacted in January regarding allegations of Sudbury inappropriately touching another patient, the affidavit says.
