“I am glad to see the pain and suffering these victims have had to endure come to an end. Mr. Glover has been sentenced to 99 years in the penitentiary and has been held accountable for the aggravated sexual assault,” District Attorney Henry Garza said.
Glover, 46, of Temple, had pleaded not guilty and maintained throughout the trial he had not assaulted the 41-year-old resident of Bell County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Dec. 7, 2006, while an employee of the facility.
But a series of witnesses for the prosecution told of sexual assaults by Glover.
Two women who had been patients at the nursing home while Glover worked there in 2006 testified Glover had raped them. Both said they had been recovering from strokes that had left them unable to completely take care of themselves when they were attacked.
A co-worker who had been employed by the nursing home from September 2005 to February 2006 told jurors she had once forced her way into a barricaded room and found Glover standing over two partially nude residents - just as another co-worker (Anita Griffin) had testified Monday she had forced Glover to open a barricaded door after the Dec. 7, 2006, incident.
The victim did not testify but her sister did and said bringing her mentally disabled sister would have been unfair.
“Just the trauma of being here would harm her (the victim),” the sister said.
Glover took the stand and rebutted all the testimony that had been given against him and repeated, to questions from both the defense and prosecution, “No, I did not (do the things earlier witnesses said I did),” he said.
But the jury didn’t believe him. They found him guilty of assaulting the resident on Dec. 7 just before noon Tuesday and then heard from assistant district attorney Rebecca DePew, who asked them to send Glover to prison for life.
“He’s a liar and a predator. He deserves life (in prison) because he’s a terrible, horrible person in our midst. Give him life because it’s the right verdict,” she told the jury.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Parker said he understood the punishment given his client. “Based on the evidence we heard during the sentencing phase of the trial, it sounds like a just and fair sentence. The only problem we have is it’s a just and fair sentence on the wrong case,” he said.
“The victim in this case still has not come into court where we could face our accuser, which is our constitutional right, and confront her,” Parker said.
