POSTED 9:42 PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019, BY PEGGY LEEUPDATED AT 11:07PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019

WILKES-BARRE, Pa.  — A nursing home aide is accused of assaulting a woman in her care in Wilkes-Barre.

Police arrested Berianne Smith, 24,  from Wilkes-Barre on charges that she attacked that resident.

Wilkes-Barre police say it was inside the Allied Services Meade Street Skilled Nursing facility on South Meade Street that a nursing home aide attacked a resident living here.

Officers were called to former Little Flower Manor Saturday evening after another aide told them he witnessed Smith assault that resident around 2:15 p.m.  that afternoon.

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