The mother and father charged with the homicide of the Louisiana girl discovered fused into her sofa have been launched on bond within the stunning case of “acute medical neglect.”
Sheila Fletcher walked out of the East Feliciana Parish jail in Clinton on a $300,000 bond Tuesday night time, whereas her husband Clay was launched on Wednesday morning, information station WBRZ reported.
The couple, each 64, face second-degree homicide fees within the horrific Jan. 3 dying of Lacey Ellen Fletcher, 36, who weighed lower than 100 kilos when she was discovered on a ratty sofa lined in urine and feces.
Lacey could have sat in her personal filth for about 12 years, in response to the coroner, Dr. Ewell Bickham. She was discovered lined in maggots and sores and “melted” right into a gap in the lounge sofa of the household’s Slaughter dwelling.
Sheila didn't reply to questions from the Every day Mail as she emerged from the jail about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday — together with why her daughter didn't transfer from the fetid sofa for therefore a few years.
The coroner, Dr. Ewell Bickham, instructed the Every day Mail that the images from the scene had been so revolting that medical personnel had been on standby when the photographs had been proven to the grand jury.
“After I was presenting the case and confirmed the photographs and gave the timeline, the expressions of the grand jury was utter shock,” he instructed the outlet.
“Just like the clock on the wall by no means moved once more. There was full silence. Some jurors had been gasping in horror. Some had been staring in disbelief,” Bickham added.
“The reason for dying stemmed from extreme medical neglect, which led to persistent malnutrition, acute hunger, immobility, acute ulcer formation, osteomyelitis, which is bone an infection which led lastly to sepsis,” he instructed the outlet.
The coroner additionally denied a report that Lacey had suffered from a uncommon neurological dysfunction referred to as locked-in syndrome.
“I don’t know the place that time period got here from or what supply it got here from. In all my years as a working towards doctor I've by no means heard of that time period,” he instructed the outlet.
“The one diagnoses that I do know she did have was first, social nervousness, extreme autism and that’s it. These are her solely two diagnoses,” Bickham stated.
“The final time she noticed a doctor of any sort or any form was when she was 16 years outdated,” he added.
District Lawyer Sam D’Aquilla stated exterior the courtroom that he believed “justice was served right here immediately. Lacey Fletcher didn’t deserve the best way she was handled.
“For this sort of crime … second diploma is the best cost that would have been produced immediately,” he stated.
“You don’t deal with anyone or any animals like that. One thing needed to be performed and all of us received collectively, all of us stood on the identical platform and we're all right here now and we have now an indictment for second-degree homicide,” the DA added.
The Fletchers had been “adamant” that Lacey was “of sound thoughts to make her personal sort of choices,” and claimed she by no means complained of her sores and that Sheila would typically clear them, D’Aquilla stated final week.
The couple’s lawyer has launched a press release saying, “They don’t need to relive the ache of shedding a toddler by means of the media. They've been by means of a number of heartache through the years. Anybody who has misplaced a toddler is aware of what it’s like.”
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