This horrific case of abuse took place in a Bupa aged care facility in Seaforth, Sydney, Australia, where a care worker mercilessly assaulted the helpless pensioner was beaten with a shoe and dragged off his bed.
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Ayda Celine, the daughter of the abused 82-year-old senior, David Nabulsi, spoke out about the appalling incident after she captured proof on camera of her father being mistreated by a care worker.
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Originally noticing bruises on her father a few months ago, Ms Celine inquired into the reasons for the injuries but was only told by the care centre that Mr Nabulsi may have fallen.
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"He was complaining about pain and when I took down his trousers I noticed dark, black bruising that had been there for a while," said Ayda. "I was advised that he might have fallen, so I let it go".
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However, as the senior's condition worsened, his daughter suspected that something was going amiss. To find out the empirical truth, Ms Celine installed a hidden CCTV camera in her father's bedroom, and to her absolute horror, the camera captured Mr Nabulsi being abused by his carer.
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Detective Acting Inspector Guy Magee of New South Wales Police told local news that he found watching the footage disturbing, adding he couldn't imagine what it must be like for the family. "It's cowardly, it's disgraceful," he added.
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It was reported that the abuser, Prakash Paudyal, 35, was arrested and yesterday charged with two counts of common assault and use of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an indictable offence.
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He has also been fired from both facilities that he had worked in. Bupa, the health insurance provider that manages the care facility involved apologised for the incident, and said in a statement, "Bupa takes the safety and wellbeing of its residents seriously and we are shocked and saddened by what has occurred at our Seaforth care home."
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 's main challenger on Saturday led tens of thousands of demonstrators through the streets of Budapest in a protest over alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions, an issue that has already shaken Orbán's government following a scandal last year.
The demonstration, called by Orbán's top rival, Péter Magyar, came in response to videos published this week depicting employees of a juvenile correction facility in Budapest physically abusing children housed there. The former head of the facility, who is in police custody on suspicion of operating a prostitution ring among other crimes, has also been accused of subjecting minors to physical and sexual abuse.
Police raided the correction center this week, though critics have accused Orbán's government of failing to act despite reports of misconduct going back years. Magyar, whose center-right Tisza party is polling ahead of Orbán's Fidesz in most independent surveys, has jumped on the case and accused the government of failing to protect vulnerable children, and called on Orbán to resign. Elections are expected to take place in April.
The Hungarian government's communications office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The crowd Saturday gathered in cold temperatures in central Budapest and marched solemnly across the Danube River. Many marchers lit torches as dusk fell, and began climbing toward Orbán's offices on Castle Hill.
One marcher, Sándor Horvát, who traveled some 200 miles (325 kilometers) to the protest from Tiszabecs on the Ukrainian border, said he believed Orbán's government “will be gone” by the time of elections.
“In other countries, the entire government would have fallen over this scandal. But here we see them clinging to power tooth and nail," he said.
The abuse of minors in state-run institutions has previously caused a political crisis for Orbán's government. In 2024, Hungary’s president, Katalin Novák, and justice minister, Judit Varga, resigned amid public outrage stemming from their endorsements of a pardon for a man convicted of helping cover up cases of child sexual abuse in a public orphanage.
The scandal represented a rare moment of weakness for Orbán, who has led Hungary with near total power since returning to office in 2010. Magyar, a former insider within Orbán's Fidesz party, burst into Hungary's political spotlight as the case unfolded, accusing the government of misconduct and corruption.
Addressing the crowd assembled outside the government's executive headquarters on Saturday, Magyar drew parallels between last year's pardon scandal and the more recent child abuse allegations, saying: "Twenty-two months ago, a country put a question to the Hungarian government: Can it change and improve the situation of children, or will it remain an accomplice of child abusers?”
“Orbán’s government promised everything, but since then, unfortunately, it turned out that every member of the Orbán government took the side of the abusers," Magyar said.
Orbán's government has condemned the physical abuse seen in the published videos while arguing that the cases of child abuse coming to light showed that Hungary's child protection system was working effectively to root out wrongdoing.
Still, several government figures, including Orbán, have emphasized that the juvenile residents of the facility had been placed there because they'd committed crimes or engaged in other misconduct, depicting the institution as a prison for minors.
Chairman of the Hungarian opposition Tisza Party Peter Magyar, fifth from left, Vice Chairman of Tisza Party Agnes Forsthoffer, sixth from left, and opera singer Andrea Rost, the party's parliamentary candidate for Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok County Constituency 1, fourth from right, walk behind a banner reading "Let's protect children" during the Tisza Party demonstration in support of abused children in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP)
Chairman of the Hungarian opposition Tisza Party Peter Magyar, second righ, Vice Chairman of Tisza Party Agnes Forsthoffer, right, and opera singer Andrea Rost, the party's parliamentary candidate for Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok County Constituency 1, third from right, attend the Tisza Party demonstration in support of abused children at the Buda Castle Tunnel, in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP)
Chairman of the Hungarian opposition Tisza Party Peter Magyar, right, Vice Chairman of Tisza Party Agnes Forsthoffer, sixth from left, and opera singer Andrea Rost, the party's parliamentary candidate for Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok County Constituency 1, fourth from right, attend the Tisza Party demonstration in support of abused children in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP)
