Two nursing aides at St. Barnabas Arbors Valencia have been charged with neglect of care of a dependent person after a video showed them dragging a patient, who suffered a crushed vertebra and bruises, according to police.

Heather M. Kilgore, 48, of Chicora, and Allison L. Schrey, 25, of Prospect, were charged Tuesday for the incident, which took place May 6.

According to Adams Township police, an official from Allegheny County Older Adult Protective Service contacted a detective about an incident and sent a video from a Ring camera showing a man being dragged backward by two nurses aides in the nursing home.

The detective contacted the man’s daughter who said she installed the camera in her father’s living room and the staff knew about it, according to an affidavit. The daughter reported that, via the camera, she saw her father laying on a couch in pain during the early morning of May 6.

She reviewed video from May 5 and saw one showing two aides dragging him backward while he was crying out in pain, according to the affidavit. The video shows the two aides drag him through the living room, through the hallway and into his bedroom, and the daughter said it looked like they threw him on to the bed and he screamed out in pain, according to the affidavit.

Police said the woman reported that her father suffered a crushed T-6 vertebra and bruises on both arms, and was taken to UPMC Passavant, and is now in a different nursing home on hospice care, according to the affidavit.

The detective contacted Kilgore and Schrey, and Kilgore, a certified nursing aide who worked at St. Barnabas for 15 years, came to the station for an interview on June 26.

Kilgore told police she and Schrey were working a shift alone and saw the man walking the halls and eating a box of cereal when their shift began. After checking on other patients, Kilgore said she found the man asleep laying on the hall floor outside of his room, according to the affidavit.

She said he had no complaints about pain or injury and didn’t remember falling, and she and Schrey picked him up and walked him backward into his room and put him in bed. Kilgore said she left to get instruments to check his vital signs, and found him sleeping in bed when she returned and checked his vitals.

At 4:45 a.m., Kilgore said she received a call from the man’s daughter asking her to check on him and saying she is on the way to the facility. Kilgore said she found the man asleep on a couch. She said she checked on him again with a nurse and found his daughter with him. His daughter wanted him to be taken to a hospital, according to the affidavit.

After showing her the video, Kiglore said they could have used a wheelchair to move the man, but there were no wheelchairs nearby.

Schrey agreed to come in for an interview, but did not, police said. She told police they didn’t mean to hurt the man and she wants to become a nurse, according to the affidavit. Her attorney called police and said she will not speak to police, but she wrote a statement for St. Barnabas, according to the affidavit.

A report from a doctor at UPMC Passavant shows the man had kyphoplasty, compression fractures, degenerative disc disease other problems in his spine, according to the affidavit.