A man is suing a nursing home in Long Island, N.Y. that he claims subjected his 86-year-old mother to watching and interacting with a male stripper against her will.

The multi-million-dollar lawsuit was filed in March on behalf of Bernice Youngblood of the East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in West Babylon. The suit states that Youngblood, who suffers from partial dementia, witnessed an unwanted performance by an exotic male dancer and was "photographed by nursing home staff as a muscular, almost nude male dancer gyrated in front of her," according to CBS New York.

At a news conference, the elderly woman described the incident, saying "I felt terrible. I was shaking and going on, and he told me what to do," reports CNN.

Her family's attorney, John Ray, said the dancer "had a fistful of dollars in his hand, and she was putting a dollar in his pants at his demand. He's leaning over her. He's not just standing there; he's intimidating her. This might be great for 32-year-old single girls, but this is an 86-year-old traditional, African-American woman who doesn't want white men sticking their private parts in her face."

The lawsuit claims the woman's son, Franklin Youngblood, found the racy photo in his mother's belongings in January 2013.

"There's too much sex and craziness that's going on. Now they're bringing it to the nursing home, and it don't belong here," he said at the conference, adding that his mother was forced to tip with her own personal money, which is supposed to be locked away by staff.

His brother, Darrell Youngblood, said a nurse told him the performance was part of an "entertainment event" at the nursing home that was "planned, scheduled and executed by the facility, its agents, and employees and that it was done in 'good faith,'" the lawsuit states.

The facility says that the performance was approved by a 16 person panel of residents.

"There is nothing inappropriate about it," the facility's attorney, Howard Fensterman, said. He added that Bernice Youngblood was chaperoned at the event by her son's girlfriend, who appears in the photo.

The family denies those claims and argues that the woman in the photo is a nursing-home staff member.