This is a very disturbing case and there needs to be accountability for the horrific death of the victim,” the attorney general said.

Two hospital workers have been charged in connection with the death of a man left in a scalding hot bath, investigators said.

The West Virginia state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has filed criminal charges against two members of a hospital nursing staff over the death of a non-verbal patient a year ago. Kylah Beard and Delilah Clayburn-Hill have been charged with neglect of an incapacitated adult resulting in death,

Kylah Beard, a certified nursing assistant, and Delilah Clayburn-Hill, a registered nurse, have each been charged with felony neglect of an incapacitated adult by a caregiver resulting in the incapacitated adult’s death.

A nurse and nursing assistant have been charged in relation to an incident last year at Hopemont Hospital in Preston County where a nonverbal patient was left in scalding water and sustained burns that eventually led to his death.

Registered nurse Delilah Clyburn-Hill and certified nursing assistant Kylah Beard have been charged with felony neglect of an incapacitated adult by a caregiver.

Two staff members at a northern West Virginia long-term care facility have been charged in the death of a patient who was left in a scalding hot bathtub a year ago, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday.