Christopher Aber: Charges of Elder Abuse Towards Jan Rooney's Husband, Mickey
On March 2, 2011, the 90-year-old Mickey Rooney told a U.S. Senate committee investigating elder abuse that he had been financially exploited and “stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions about my life” by his stepson, Christopher Aber (and Aber's wife, Christina), against whom he obtained a restraining order. The Senate Aging Committee chairman, Herb Kohl, told Rooney that he would propose legislation to create an Office of Elder Justice in the U.S. Department of Justice. Rooney told the Special Committee that he had been afraid to seek help because he was “overwhelmed” with fear, anger and disbelief. Rooney's conservator, Michael Augustine, told the AARP Bulletin that the actor is "‘completely competent’. Elder abuse can happen even to people with sharp minds and good health, he said." Aber and his mother, Jan Rooney, both denied these claims.
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