A DEMENTIA care assistant in Northern Ireland who took “demeaning” photos and videos of her patients has been sentenced. Police received a referral from the Southern Health & Social Care Trust in August of that year raising adult safeguarding concerns involving a vulnerable patient group at the Bluestone Hospital Dementia Unit. Corvan had been reported for photographing and recording vulnerable patients on her mobile phone and posting these videos and photos via a social media messaging app with what has been described as “degrading commentary”. An investigation was launched by Detectives from the PSNI’s Public Protection Branch and Social Workers from the Southern Health & Social Care Trust. “If you are in a position of trust and care and not taking that position seriously, heed this warning.