This makes my Blood boil.

I saw a posting over on Pearls Of Honor this reallly makes my blood boil.Especially after reading the atrticle that is linked to the posting. Since I could not get the link to work I copied and pasted the article here.

 Caregiver of Pearl Harbor survivor pleads not guilty

By Kristina Davis and Steve Schmidt

Originally published January 27, 2011 at 3:51 p.m., updated January 27, 2011 at 4:40 p.m.

At 93 years old, Arnold “Max” Bauer is as proud a Pearl Harbor survivor as they come, always willing to recount the day the Japanese poured bombs on his Navy ship, always eager to tell how he managed to stay aboard the repair vessel USS Vestal amid the chaos.

In recent years, though, the hero had fallen on tough times. His wife died in 2007. The once-thriving garden outside his house near El Cajon went to seed. Friends and neighbors said they tried to reach out, but the front gate into his driveway was usually locked.

Then came Tuesday’s news: Sheriff’s deputies arrested his live-in caregiver for allegedly mistreating him. Authorities discovered that the esteemed veteran was living in a state of squalor, his house thick with trash, rotting food and rat droppings.

Deputies found him gripping a photo of the USS Vestal, where he and his crewmates made their stand on the morning of Dec. 7.

Milagros Angeles, 62, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to four felony charges: elder abuse, theft by a caretaker, false imprisonment of an elder and possession of altered checks.

She faces up to six years and eight months in prison if convicted on all counts.

El Cajon Superior Court Judge Charles W. Ervin granted the prosecutor’s request to raise the bail to $1 million, saying Angeles was a flight risk. She was arraigned via video from Las Colinas Jail and said nothing during the hearing.

The arraignment came as a portrait emerged of Bauer’s life during the past few years. Neighbors and fellow Pearl Harbor survivors said Thursday that they had grown concerned about the veteran, but had a tough time contacting him.

Stuart Hedley, president of the San Diego Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, said he visited Bauer at his Euclid Avenue house near Granite Hills High School a few days ago, after several failed attempts to reach him.

Hedley said Bauer was unshaven and sounded confused, saying at one point that he didn’t know where his late wife, Roma, had gone. “He kept telling me, ‘Time is passing me by,’ ” Hedley recalled.

Next-door neighbors Mary and Nick Asaro said they worried about Bauer after his wife died, but he once told them that he was fine and could take care of himself.

They noticed that his garden went untended and that he and Angeles seemed to spend the bulk of their time behind closed doors.

A preliminary hearing for Angeles has been set for Feb. 9.

The alleged abuse came to light when Bauer’s bank noticed that he hadn’t come in since October. The bank made several phone calls to the home and spoke with Angeles, who told them Bauer either wasn’t available or was in Hawaii, said sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Varnau.

The bank became concerned and reported suspicion of elder abuse to Adult Protective Services.

When sheriff's deputies checked out the house a few days later, they found about $9,000 in cash hidden in the home. Some of the cash was in bundles in Angeles’ bedroom, while the rest was found stuffed into a money belt and the pockets of the five layers of clothing Angeles was wearing at the time.

They also found at least 56 checks written to herself for a total of about $5,600, as well as $1,800 in checks written to others. There is also evidence that she was funneling money to a bank in the Philippines.

“He would sign anything she put in front of him,” said Varnau, who described Bauer’s memory as “childlike.”

Deputy District Attorney Danielle Hickman said Bauer suffers from dementia. When he was hospitalized this week, doctors discovered an severe urinary tract infection and prostate cancer that had never been diagnosed and was not being treated.

Angeles, a legal U.S. resident from the Philippines, has lived in San Diego County for the past six years and has no criminal record. She had been working for Bauer since 2009.