Home Health Aid Robs Paraplegic West Norriton Man

According to The Times Herald, a former home health aid admitted to identity theft and other related charges after an investigation revealed he used the debit card of his patient, a paraplegic West Norriton man, to steal more than $2,000.

Twenty three-year-old Daryl Jerome Reed, of Philadelphia, was reportedly given access to the victim's debit card so he could purchase needed medications, but an investigation by revealed that Reed had used the card on 17 separate occasions to make unauthorized withdrawals totaling $2,011.

Reed pleaded guilty to charges of theft by deception and identity theft, but Judge Garrett Page is deferring sentencing until he sees a background investigative report on Reed.

Read more about the case here.