Example 5
Someone with dementia living in a secure care home managed to leave the building because a carer did not close the external door.
They became lost and were found by the police, suffering from hypothermia:
1. The person has suffered abuse by neglect as the door was left open and they were able to get out of an environment where they should have been kept safe, and
2. as a result, they have come to harm (hypothermia).
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