Safety inside long-term care homes is being questioned after several cases of violence between patients.
In recent weeks, a 76 year old was found guilty of killing a fellow patient at a senior's home in Scarborough and an 82 year old was charged with manslaughter in an attack on a fellow patient in a home in Mississauga.
Now a story out of Dundas of an 85 year old man beaten by a fellow patient over the weekend at St. Josephs Villa as he lay sleeping.
The victim's daughter Tammy Corbina says workers watched as her father was attacked because they have been ordered not to intervene.
NDP MPP France Gelinas says her efforts to get the province to pass a law to enact minimum standards of care at nursing homes has fallen on deaf ears.