Ex-Cherry Hospital workers convicted of assaulting patient
Taniko Dominique Upton, 33, and William Kenneth Johnson, 52, were convicted of misdemeanor simple assault on a handicapped person.
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Taniko Dominique Upton, 33, and William Kenneth Johnson, 52, were convicted of misdemeanor simple assault on a handicapped person.
A district judge found both men guilty on the charge in November, but they appealed their convictions to Superior Court for a jury trial.
Upton and Johnson, who worked as health-care technicians at the Goldsboro mental facility, were fired in August after allegations surfaced that they beat a patient on Aug. 18, the same day federal investigators released a report citing Cherry Hospital for patient neglect.
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