LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - An Indiana man is facing new charges after being accused of scamming a woman out of the deed to her house.

In October, Russell Cheatham , of Scottsburg, Indiana, was charged with theft of identity of another without consent and criminal possession forged instrument. Now, he is facing a new charge of burglary.

According to court documents, Cheatham tried to sell an 89-year-old Dorothy Turpin’s house after getting the deed to her property without consent. Turpin had been living in a nursing home for three years but was told she no longer could stay there because of cuts to Medicaid, which had been funding her to that point. Her family then discovered that fraudulent paperwork was provided to transfer her Parkland neighborhood home to someone else.

The deed state

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