This is the face of a real scumbag shitbird. A man who stole from dead and dying.

[Stinky The Clown]

That man was a worker at Grady Memorial in Atlanta. Among his duties was caring for the valuables of the critically ill.

Instead, this scumbag shirtbird stole their wedding rings and hocked them.

Here's the story from the WSB website

Grady Worker Charged With Stealing Dead Woman's Rings

POSTED: 3:15 pm EDT May 14, 2008
UPDATED: 11:31 am EDT May 16, 2008

ATLANTA -- A Grady worker accused of stealing wedding and engagement rings from a woman who died at Grady Memorial Hospital surrendered to police Thursday.

Tacuma Jawara, 54, was charged with stealing the rings that belonged to 35-year-old Katherine Armstrong who died in the emergency room after a crash on I-85 near Flat Shoals Road. He was charged with one felony count of theft by taking.

Police told Channel 2 Action News they have surveillance tape showing Jawara with a property bag. He was a worker who had contact with Armstrong's family after her death.

Alan Armstrong said records showed his wife was wearing her engagement and wedding rings in the emergency room but after that they disappeared.

"Either some staffer stole those rings from a woman who just died in that room, or perhaps they were so negligent in the care of personal belongings that someone else just wandered in," said her husband, Alan Armstrong.

Alan Armstrong said Katherine had designed the rings herself and there were no others like them.

Atlanta police investigated and named Jawara as a suspect on Wednesday. When officers went to Grady Wednesday to make an arrest, Jawara had called in sick.

The rings have not been recovered. Authorities said Jawara has said he does not have the rings.

The link: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16262957/detail.html

[Contrary1]

1. Something similar has been happening in Indianapolis hospitals...

Low level scumbags are trolling the ICU and Critical Care waiting rooms. When the doctor walks in to give an update, often bad news that distracts the family, that is when they pick up purses and anything else of value.

[lonestarnot]

2. Fucking prick.

[greenbriar]

4. special place in Hell

for scumbags like that

[tularetom]

3. There was a post a couple days ago - a DU'er had a relative

who was victimized by some POS like this.

Anybody recall it?

[tkmorris]

5. Yeah, that was DemoTex

First rate DU'er, him. Apparently some asshole stole his Mom's rings at the hospital, IIRC.

[BlueJazz]

6. Yeah...I remember that (somewhat)..I was hopeing the Guy was caught. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Yeah, DemoTex's mother

I think he said she was in Atlanta too, come to think of it.

[emilyg]

7. True scum.

[Fleshdancer]

8. This happened to my grandmother

Her jewelry magically disappeared either on the way to the hospital or at the hospital. Unfortunately we'll never know who stole it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. My best friend's mother

On the night before the morning that she died, someone came in and stole her rings. They were never recovered.

Her roommate, who was a very old woman, said she saw a man holding up my friend's mother's arm, moving it back and forth, but she thought he was helping her with exercise. He probably had trouble getting them off, since she hadn't removed them in more than fifty years of marriage.

[Hannah Bell]

11. Um - he's charged with it, but I don't see the proof.

It may be he took them, but before you convict him, I'd wait for the trial.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. That's an early story

He later led the cops to the stolen items at a pawn shop where they were recovered and turned over to the widower.

You were saying ........... ?

(I am NO media fan, but the media - especially the local media - are pretty wary about broadcasting accusatory stories with names and pictures unless everyone is pretty damned sure what's going on. They're not angels. They do this because of fear of lawsuits. Rightly so. And sometimes they DO get it wrong. And that's bad. But still ......)

[cmf]

12. Unfortunately stuff like this happens often

Family members are often too caught up in a fog of grief to notice/effectively do something about it. My mother died in an emergency room, but I have no idea what jewelry she may have been wearing at the time, so who knows if we got back everything. The widower in this case doggedly persued this and fortunately got the media active.

The update to this story I saw on CNN was that the accused worker led them to the location of the rings (through his lawyer), so they were eventually recovered, which is great news for her family.