Brooke Shields Mother Checked Out of Nursing Home by Reporter

A reporter with the National Enquirer allegedly checked Brooke Shields mother out of her nursing room on Thursday by posing as a friend, according to People. Teri Shields (75) suffers from dementia.

"I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act."

"My mother Teri Shields has been diagnosed with dementia. For her safety, she has temporarily been in a senior living facility, a very difficult decision for me," she says. "Late Thursday afternoon, I was alerted by Old Tappan Police that my mother had been signed out of the facility by two reporters of the National Enquirer, who falsely claimed they were friends of hers."

"They then drove my 75-year-old mother around looking for a tabloid story. As anyone knows who has a parent who suffers from dementia or Alzheimer’s, it is one of the most difficult experiences you can go through as a son or daughter. The idea that the National Enquirer took advantage of her state is reprehensible and disgusting."

Police were called to the nursing home by its staff to help look for the elder Shields, who had been allowed to leave but was gone for an "extended period of time." They found Teri unharmed chatting with a freelance journalist at a restaurant next door to the New Jersey assisted living center.

The journalist and a photographer were questioned by police. The incident is still under investigation.

That journalist *cough* needs to not only go to jail, but also needs to be fired, and black listed from anything journalism related. This is unbelievable. However, no charges have been filed, and the Shields family had not yet sought a criminal complaint against the reporter nor the photographer.

According to Old Tappan Police Department Capt. Thomas Shine, officers were called to the assisted living facility at 3 p.m. Thursday to look for Teri Shields. A supervisor at the facility said the elder Shields had been checked out.

"It was more along the lines that she had been allowed to leave, based upon their protocol or policy. It had been an extended period of time since she left."

"Our officer located her with some form of a journalist, I think a freelance journalist, in an eatery right next door. She wasn’t harmed in any way shape or form. She was fine. The officers discussed the circumstances with her. And she literally walked with one of my officers next door to the assisted living center."

"The part we’re investigating here is who allowed her to leave the facility. It appears that there were some permissions that were given for Mrs. Shields by the family, be they written, be they verbal, we’re investigating, to allow her visitation for a variety of different reasons."

Shine says he believes the journalist "was familiar to Mrs. Shields" and that the journalist "did sign her out and was allowed to leave by personnel."

As for whether the elder Shields was driven around, Shine says, "We’re still investigating that."

We want to know the name of this so-called journalist. We hope all that allowed this to happen, and those that made it happen like the reporter, are charged in this case.