Crime Against The Elderly, The Elderly | featured news

A 73-year-old woman was sexually assaulted Wednesday in New York's Central Park in the middle of the day, police said. The victim was bird watching in the vicinity of 74th Street and Central Park West, also known as Strawberry Fields, just before noon when her alleged attacker approached her. The woman told police they exchanged words and he sexually assaulted her.

A New Jersey woman is accused of fatally poisoning her husband’s 88-year-old grandmother with antifreeze.

A Utah woman was sentenced Tuesday to consecutive prison terms for spiking a 79-year-old man's peach smoothie with antifreeze after taking control of his bank accounts....

A 63-year-old woman grabbed a burglar less than half her age after she found him in her home and made him wait for the police, according to reports.

An elderly Michigan woman watched helplessly as a girl broke into her apartment. Seventy nine-year-old Florence of Ferndale, Mich., is confined to a scooter because of Polio. So she couldn't do much when a 12-year-old girl broke into her apartment Friday.

An 88-year-old man accused of killing his wife of 70 years at her nursing home to "put her out of her misery" was charged Tuesday with murder, prosecutors said.

A 92-year-old woman is charged with murder following the discovery of her 98-year-old husband's body at their home in Australia, police say.

Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the central Texas towns where a series of rapes and robberies of elderly women have been occuring in the past year.