Nurse takes the stand in alleged elder abuse case

A nurse at a San Andreas convalescent hospital testified Thursday that she twice saw Attila Horvath of Sonora ask 98-year-old Ross Anderson to sign blank checks for him. Those checks and others are at the core of the charge of financial elder abuse Horvath faces in connection with the alleged theft of $12,000 from Anderson between January and May 2006. A trial in the case began Wednesday in Tuolumne County Superior Court. Deputy District Attorney Eric Hovatter said Anderson signed 12 checks made out to either Horvath or his wife. They were later cashed and put into Horvath's checking account. Anderson, a frail man who is hard of hearing and can't see well, said he didn't know he was signing checks for Horvath. He has said he thought he was signing checks to pay his bills.

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