Prison, probation for sexual assault
Bryan Labus, 25, sentenced for molesting elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease
NORRISTOWN » A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to time behind bars after admitting to sexually assaulting an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease at Dock Woods — where he had been working as a nursing assistant — in 2015, according to court records.
Bryan Richard Labus, of the 300 block of Park Avenue in Lower Salford, appeared before Montgomery County Judge Gail Weilheimer and pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree felony institutional sexual assault, re-
cords show.
Labus was sentenced to 11 months and 15 days to 23 months of incarceration, to be followed by five years of probation. He must also register as a sex offender for 15 years and undergo a psychosexual evaluation and comply with the results, court documents show. Labus is also prohibited from having any further contact with the victim or her family.
Towamencin detectives said in court documents that on Oct. 1, 2015, officers responded to Dock Woods, located at 275 Dock Drive, for a report of elder abuse and sexual mistreatment and learned that on Sept. 30 of that year, Labus — who worked as a certified nursing assistant in the Secure Dementia Care Unit of the facility — had been seen by a supervising nurse kissing and engaging in indecent contact with the victim, a then-93-year-old woman, in her room.
The next day, according to the affidavit, Labus went to Towamencin police headquarters for an interview with detectives, during which he admitted kissing and fondling the woman and that he considered her “to be his girlfriend and claimed that entering her room and kissing was a common occurrence when he worked.”
Police said Labus admitted to detectives that he sexually assaulted the woman on multiple occasions prior to Sept. 30, 2015, while knowing that there “were things she just couldn’t do because of her medical condition,” according to the affidavit.
In a subsequent interview with county investigators, court documents state, Labus said that he “sort of crossed a boundary.”
Labus began working in the Secure Dementia Care Unit in 2012, and the woman was a resident of the unit since July of 2014, police said.
During the investigation, according to the affidavit, multiple doctors who had either treated or evaluated the woman determined she was incapable of consenting to any sexual activity based on her condition.
Living Branches, the parent company of Dock Woods, said at the time that Labus was immediately suspended from his job after his supervisor observed him kissing the woman, and that his employment was terminated two days later.
Prosecutors withdrew felony counts of aggravated indecent assault and additional counts of institutional sexual assault, as well as multiple first-degree misdemeanor counts of indecent assault of a person with a mental disability, as part of the plea agreement, according to court records.
Jail records indicated Wednesday that Labus is currently incarcerated at Montgomery County Correctional Facility.