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Nursing home resident pleads guilty to murder, rape of 80-year-old invalid

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis nursing home resident pleaded guilty to murdering and raping an 80-year-old invalid. Sixty-one-year-old Dwayne Freeman faces 45 years in prison under terms of a plea agreement when he is sentenced June 22. Patricia Newnum died Feb. 2, 2022 at the Homestead Healthcare Center in Indianapolis. Court documents say a Homestead employee entered Newnum’s room to give her medication when she saw Freeman naked on top of the woman and holding a pillow over her face. Documents say Freeman said the sex was consensual. It wasn’t clear why Freeman was a resident of the nursing home.

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