New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announces that Timothy Morrissey of Manchester, New Hampshire has been indicted on alternative charges of simple assault and abuse of a facility patient by a Hillsborough County Grand Jury. The indictments allege that Mr. Morrissey, while working as a Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) at Bel-Air Nursing Home and Rehab Center in Goffstown, NH, knowingly caused unprivileged physical contact to a 79 year-old resident with dementia and willfully mistreated that resident on October 31, 2015. Both charges are misdemeanors that are subject to enhanced penalties under RSA 651:6, I(d), carrying a maximum sentence of 2-5 years in state prison. Mr. Morrissey will be arraigned in Hillsborough Superior Court North on December 18, 2015.