A 98-year-old man in Chios who suffers from dementia asks for help and tries to get out of bed in the middle of the night. The housekeeper hired to look after him enters the room. While he tries to communicate, she mercilessly hits him hard on the head.

The elderly man from Chios is writhing in pain, but the housekeeper continues. She shakes him, hits him again, pulls him by the ear. She ties his hands and hits him again. When the door knocks, he stops.

To the 98-year-old’s daughter, who enters the room in shock, however, she denies everything:

– M. you hit him.

– No, dear. Oh, dear.

<M. You hit him.

<No, dear.

<I saw it on the camera, M.

<No, dear… Please.

Rage over abuse – “I do my job very well”

Cameras revealed what horrific things were going on behind the family’s back. For a month, Ms Despina’s two elderly parents were martyred at the hands of the domestic worker, a Romanian national.

“She lived here with my mother, alone. One morning I found a bruise on my mother’s face. That’s when I became suspicious. My mother sometimes told us ‘she is a bad person who is here’. Then we got suspicious and put a camera on. She told us ‘I don’t mind you putting a camera, I am doing my job very well’,” the elderly daughter said.

The images brought to light on Monday (27.04.2026) by MEGA’s Live News with Nikos Evangelatos are shocking. She pulls his ear, his hair, causes him unbearable pain. He tries to stop her, but he can’t. Helpless, he endures the brutal abuse. In exclusive footage, the housekeeper beats the elderly man with dementia, going so far as to forcibly shut his mouth.

“I (the father) caught up with him in a fetal position, saying I don’t have friends like that tying my hands and slapping me and he was shaking. At that moment I was so shocked to see my father that what I did was to hold him and kiss him and cry,” his daughter said.

How the 70-year-old’s brutal behaviour was revealed

Panagiotis, 98, “passed away” a few days ago. His final days were martyrdom, with the 70-year-old woman’s horrific actions revealed by chance one night:

“I randomly went in to check the camera and saw this thing. I notice the housekeeper is trying to tie my grandfather’s hands with a ribbon from my grandmother’s robe and my grandfather is resisting, telling her for God’s sake, he’s said it too many times and she’s hitting him on the head. Pulling his hair,” says a niece of the family.

The family wasted no time in filing a complaint against the housekeeper. But the prosecutor’s decision was to release her until the case is heard, which angered the relatives:

“I can’t understand, I wonder and I am frankly indignant, what logic the prosecutor used to release her. She left, she is out of Chios, she will obviously find another home in Athens and continue her work.”

According to the family’s complaint, this was not the first time that this particular housekeeper had been accused of violent behaviour against elderly people.