Elderly man arrested for walking wife with a dog leash around her neck because she has late-stage dementia
Authorities have stated that a man from Pennsylvania was arrested at a fair after he was seen using a dog leash to walk his late-stage dementia-suffering wife. Walter William Wolford Sr., a 66-year-old from Hagerstown, has been charged with one count of simple assault after a witness at the York Fair on September 15 informed police officers about the elderly man leading his wife, Catherine, by the neck around the grounds with a red nylon dog leash. The leash was reportedly about eight feet long. The charging documents stated that at one point of time at the fair, Wolford was seen pulling on the leash which caused his wife's head to "move backward and for her to sustain red marks around her throat area".
The responding officers noted that Catherine's condition was bad when medical personnel at the fair were treating her.