Nurse Allegedly Takes Photos of Patients Unclothed, Sends Them to Former Co-Worker

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5/6/2019Updated: 5/6/2019

A nurse in western Pennsylvania is accused of taking “explicit and private” photos of patients and sharing them with an ex-co-worker, the police said.

The Allegheny County police said 30-year-old Ashley Ann Smith took inappropriate pictures of 17 elderly patients, some of them unclothed, between May 2017 and August 2018, at a nursing home in Allegheny County, reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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