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Home-Health Aide Charged 

With Theft From Elderly Pair

By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Stephanie Shulgay leaves a county courtroom today after pleading not guilty to theft charges. (Libby Cudmore/AllOTSEGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – A former home health aide was arraigned in Otsego County Court today on charges that she stole more than $33,000 from an elderly couple over 15 months when they were in her care.

Stephanie Shulgay, 32, plead "Not guilty" to the third-degree grand larceny charges, filed by a grand jury. It is alleged that she stole the money from the couple by using their credit and debit cards between July 2017 and October 2018, while working as a home health aide.

"You can't just breach someone's trust like that," said District Attorney John Muehl.

According to the Otsego County Sheriff's Department, Shulgay allegedly used the money to pay bills for herself and an elderly uncle.

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