ATLANTA -- Channel 2 Action News has learned a nursing home worker is charged today with battery for allegedly assaulting an 80-year-old patient. The elderly woman says the attendant hit her, tossed her around and even threw feces at her.

The incident allegedly happened at a facility on Butner Road in Fairburn. Police believe the man accused of harming the patient is on the run.

Police haven’t been able to find him. The daughter of the victim says this type of abuse cannot be tolerated.

“Yes, this was abuse. He hit her with his fist. Her little legs are that big around and he hit her with his fist,” says the patient’s daughter, Nancy Walker.

Walker is still angry over the abuse she says her 80-year-old mother suffered at the hands of an attendant at a health and rehabilitation center. The attendant, Magnus Sulle, now faces simple battery and simple assault charges.

“You don’t do that with these fragile little people,” says Walker.

According to a police report and the victim’s daughter, Edith Lilly’s painful ordeal began when Sulle came into her room and became enraged because Lilly had on an underwear garment the attendant didn’t approve of. That’s when Lilly says Sulle began to abuse her.

“He literally just lost his temper. He was throwing parts of the wheelchair around. He hit her with his fist in the leg. He pushed her into the bed. He slung particles of human waste around,” says Walker.

Walker says a nurse heard the assault, and came into the room and stopped Sulle. An administrator told Channel 2 there was an altercation involving Sulle and Lilly and that Sulle had been fired.

“Well, I think that’s a good thing and if he never gets in the medical field again that would make me feel good,” says Walker.

Lilly is shaken but doing okay. Channel 2 has been told a warrant has been issued for Sulle’s arrest. Administrators say he had been a model employee.