Woman ran illegal group home, used alias for new homes, authorities say
Deputies on Tuesday arrested the ex-owner of an unlicensed assisted living facility on new charges accusing her of mistreating the group home’s residents and stealing funds from Travis County’s low-income housing agency.
Renee Segura-Livingston, 47, was indicted on four counts of injury to an elderly or disabled person and two counts of theft based on an investigation that began in 2015.
Investigators also suspect Segura-Livingston began to operate new homes under an alias after her previous facility — God’s Blessings on Wildrose Drive — was shut down, officials with the Travis County district attorney’s office said.
The indictment names four people over age 65 for whom Segura-Livingston “failed to provide protection, food, water, shelter and medical care,” the document says. The indictment also accuses her of getting $20,000 to$100,000 from the Housing Authority of Travis County “that she was not entitled to receive.”
Segura-Livingston “failed to report her ownership of her business, God’s Blessings,” the indictment says.
It’s the second time she has been arrested in connection to the God’s Blessings case. She was first arrested when authorities shut down the Wildrose Drive facility in August 2015.
Back then, first responders found 22 emaciated people in a 1,400-square-foot home in East Austin kept in rooms with no air conditioning, court documents show. Seven residents were hospitalized and 15 relocated, DA officials said.
“When the officials found the home in East Austin, Segura allegedly told the tenants not to speak to police and tore off their patient wristbands while paramedics and police tried to perform medical checks,” the DA office wrote.
After her arrest this week, officials “performed checks on two Austin locations that are suspected to be new homes operated by Segura-Livingston, allegedly using an alias ‘Eunice Green,’” a statement from the DA’s office says. Investigators believe one home is called God’s Second Chances, but DA officials wouldn’t release the other suspected facility’s name or any addresses.