Elder Crimes Soar While Indiana Courts and Prosecutors Plead They Are Too Busy

Robert Corr robbed of his home and pets in Northern Indiana, where there is no legal system left under CJ Rush.

Michigan City — Robert "Bob" Corr says his house was stolen by a “title theft” thief and some gang while he was hospitalized this spring in St. Anthony Hospital. He’s a white man in his late 70s or 80s and now, the recorded owner of his home in LaPorte County land records is a woman from the Indianapolis area. Not a stranger, a prior purported "caregiver and hanger-on."

Why was he targeted by her from "downstate?" Why can’t he get the local police make or take his report?

He said that they say it’s a civil/real estate matter, but it clearly isn’t.

The home on Maple Street in Michigan City worth a as much as $300,000 is a ranch in a nicer neighborhood very close to Edgewood Elementary School. However, it is a property with a tragic past -- where his ill son had once shot himself and his own mother, Bob's wife, over a decade ago—both died in the murder suicide.

Mr. Corr mourned for years. Retired from his business activities which he had engaged in with his wife, manufacturing healthy beverages and operating health food stores. He used his local lawyer to settle their estates and vowed to keep the family home and survive there until his own death someday. His attorney subjected to a complaint filed by a Michican resident in 2014 which was dismissed but reopened in 2016, causing his favorite lawyer to be suspended.

He didn’t remarry and suffered for years. According to him, "his lawyer was there when he needed help the most." Well, now he’s really lost and without help or family, or his home or family pets--and no lawyer. Just another unintended consequense of Loretta and DEI politics or a quid pro quo as HE as reported on. Once a successful businessman, he is broken, elderly, and homeless. wondering why he ever moved from Chicago to Northern Indiana.

Indiana Adult Protective Services was unaware of him. There is no court case or police report on file. So, are the state crime statistics even accurate?

Ask Loretta Rush. It’s just another legal crisis in Indiana under her watch and failed DEI leadership. Not just over regulation but mis-regulation RINO style to hold power and create fear has led to a lawyer shortage crisis, Yet, she cannot come to blame herself; a typical failure of an incompentent ego.

As financial scams, guardianship battles, and elder exploitation cases continue to rise across Indiana, many families are asking a simple question: where is the urgency from Indiana’s judicial leadership?

Indiana’s aging population has become an increasingly attractive target for criminals. Telephone scams, romance fraud, misuse of powers of attorney, and allegations of nursing home neglect have generated thousands of complaints annually. State officials themselves acknowledge the growing crisis.

Adult Protective Services has received more than 21,000 reports involving endangered adults, while Indiana courts process approximately 7,000 new guardianship matters each year. But those numbers are likely very understated.

Yet many Hoosiers complain that court proceedings involving elderly victims move slowly, hearings are delayed, and obtaining relief can take months.

Chief Justice Loretta Rush has repeatedly emphasized numerous challenges facing Indiana’s judiciary, including attorney shortages, security threats against judges, and heavy caseloads. She has also highlighted concerns about “legal deserts” where many counties lack sufficient attorneys.

Critics, however, argue that an overwhelmed court system is itself becoming part of the problem.

“When elderly victims are losing life savings to scams or being isolated from family members, justice delayed can become justice denied,” one observer remarked.

Indiana’s courts have devoted significant resources toward specialty programs, data modernization initiatives, and various administrative reforms. Supporters of judicial leadership argue these efforts ultimately improve access to justice and make the court system more efficient.

But critics counter that ordinary Hoosiers see a different reality: rising elder exploitation, shortages of lawyers in rural counties, and increasing difficulty obtaining prompt judicial intervention.

The demographic trends suggest the problem may only worsen. Indiana’s senior population is expected to continue growing over the coming decades, potentially increasing the number of guardianship disputes and elder abuse claims.

The question facing policymakers is straightforward: if courts are already struggling under current caseloads, what happens when the next wave of elder cases arrives?

For many Indiana families caring for aging parents, that question is not theoretical. It is personal.

And for those families, hearing that the courts are simply too busy may offer little comfort.

This topic is tied to broader issues including Indiana’s attorney shortage, access-to-justice concerns in rural counties, and whether additional probate judges, magistrates, elder courts, or guardianship reforms are needed to protect vulnerable Hoosier senior citizens,

Mr. Corr, who can’t find an attorney since his trusted, caring, and affordable lawyer was several years ago suspended by Rush in an order full of lies, so today he asks, “what I should do? There is no justice and no lawyers. And the Michigan City Police treat me like a criminal and do nothing to assist in this.”

But for the grace of God go you.