Caretaker sentenced to five years for elder abuse

BOZEMAN — A Bozeman woman has been sentenced to five years’ probation for abusing the partially paralyzed 63-year-old man who hired her to care for him.

Elsie Evans McEntire previously pleaded no contest to felony elder abuse.

District Judge Holly Brown sentenced the 53-year-old McEntire Tuesday.

Brown also ordered McEntire to participate in the Treatment Court program.

Prosecutors say the man told police on Sept. 3 McEntire hit him with a fan. She denied it, but said they had been arguing.

Police returned to the mobile home about 35 minutes later after the man said McEntire threatened to kill him with a kitchen knife.

Prosecutors say McEntire was in the back of the trailer, fought with officers and had to be carried to the patrol car.