BC Judge Rules ‘Predator’ to Lose Stake in Elderly Woman’s $1.2M Home

A man who allegedly committed acts of elder abuse has been instructed to pay punitive damages to an elderly British Columbia woman with dementia and forfeit his stake in her $1.2 million home. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Ann Donegan described Zoltan Vimhel as a “predator” whose alleged treatment of Judith King was “egregious,” in a decision issued last week. She ruled that he must not only lose his stake in the victim’s three-bedroom townhouse but also pay her $50,000. King, who is now 88 years old and living in a care home, first met Vimhel, also known as Steven Vimhel, 11 years ago....