STEINBACH — The family of an alleged hospital-room assault victim still in care is seeking answers after Steinbach RCMP charged a nurse in August.

Catherine Wares expected the health-care system would keep her cousin, Jake Neufeld, safe when he had a brain aneurysm. But after a nurse allegedly attempted to smother him with a pillow, her trust has been shaken.

“How can someone put in a position to help people that are vulnerable and in their most vulnerable states, do something like that?” Wares said in an interview with the Carillon .

Steinbach RCMP charged 50-year-old Rural Municipality of Hanover resident Tammy Freynet, a nurse at Bethesda Regional Health Centre, with assault with a weapon on Aug. 26. RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Melanie Roussel said officers began their investigation afte

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