Dad and mom Might Face Homicide Costs After Disabled Daughter is Discovered ‘MELTED’ Into Sofa

The physique of 36-year-old Lacey Fletcher was found at her residence within the tiny quiet city of Slaughter again on January 3, in what can solely be described as abhorrent circumstances.

Recounting the nauseating scene to WAFB, coroner Dr. Ewell Bickham estimated that the girl had been sat in the identical place for years — to the purpose she had actually develop into fused to the furnishings.

“I could not eat for every week, and I cried for every week,” Dr. Bickham stated.

“After I first walked in the home, it smelled of feces, fecal materials, nonetheless you wish to put that politely, it stunk,” he recalled. “And once I bought to the physique, the person was mainly sitting in a gap, crammed with liquid stool and urine.”

The sufferer, he stated, was lined from head to toe in urine and liquid feces, with mattress sores that went all the way down to the bone, and was crawling with bugs. She weighed simply 96lbs.

Fletcher suffered from locked-in syndrome, unable to maneuver any muscle mass in addition to her eyes. Her mother and father have been imagined to be her caretakers.

Bickham claimed she had been left to make use of the sofa as a latrine, and he or she had ultimately melted by the upholstery of the 1960′s-style couch.

“It is the worst type of medical neglect I’ve ever seen. I do not know some other adjectives or adverbs so as to add to that,” Bickham stated, claiming she had been uncared for for no less than a decade.

“I’ve by no means seen something like this, that actually turned my abdomen as dangerous because it did,” the coroner advised WBRZ. “It actually bought me emotional, and I am a robust particular person.”

Her mother and father known as 911 on January 3 once they seen she’d stopped respiration; first responders entered the in any other case idyllic residence to seek out the nightmarish scene:

Although her loss of life was formally recorded on January 3, Bickham believes she may have died 24 and even 48 hours earlier than that.

After an post-mortem, Jefferson Parish Forensic Heart dominated the loss of life a murder.

Fletcher’s mother and father haven’t been arrested or charged with any crime. However District Lawyer Sam D’Aquilla has known as on the grand jury to contemplate second-degree homicide.

Different potential expenses embrace manslaughter, cruelty to the infirmed, negligent murder — or none in any respect.

“The caretakers simply let her sit on the sofa. She simply urinated and used the toilet on the sofa,” D’Aquilla stated, per WBRZ. “It was so horrific.”

“It was the scent of rot,” he added. “We don’t even deal with animals like this.”

Based on The Sun, the mother and father have been interviewed by detectives on January 18,

They claimed Lacey had suffered extreme social nervousness as a teen, and was homeschooled. They stated she refused to go away the sofa, and would urinate and defecate in towels or on the ground, per the outlet.

They stated that they had not introduced her to a health care provider in ten years as a result of she was not unwell, and that she was “of sound thoughts to make her personal sort of choices,” it reported. They insisted they cleaned her wounds and introduced her meals.

This week, their lawyer launched a quick assertion:

“They do not wish to relive the ache of dropping a baby by the media. They’ve been by a whole lot of heartache over time. Anybody who had misplaced a baby is aware of what it is like.”

Neighbors spoke of their shock on the horrific revelation; one advised WBRZ he had final seen Lacey outdoors 5 – 6 years in the past.

“I requested him at some point a few years in the past as a result of I hadn’t seen her,” Robert Blades stated of the daddy. “‘Yeah, she nonetheless stays right here.'”

“They go to church each weekend… and do something for anyone,” the surprised neighbor added.

The grand jury will determine what expenses — if any — will probably be introduced on Could 2.