Summerton woman charged for assault at Sumter nursing home

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Andria Martice Lawson, 24, of Urbana Road in Summerton, was charged Monday with one count each of abuse of a vulnerable adult and neglect of a vulnerable adult in her role as a nurse's assistant at Sumter Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center on Pinewood Road in Sumter. According to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, Lawson allegedly struck a 70-year-old woman in the chest "repeatedly," after snatching the woman's gown off of her. The woman had reportedly asked Lawson to help her change out of the gown.