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: The Illinois Family Lawyer

By Peter Olson, Esq.

Saw this piece about two daughters who've been criminally charged for neglecting their ailing mother who subsequently died. Here's a nugget from the article:

Mary Virginia Barry, 84, weighed only 70 pounds when paramedics found her in April in a cluttered bedroom, lying on soiled sheets with ants crawling on her, in the Geneva house she shared with two daughters.

Barry, suffering from cancer and the aftermath of a stroke several years ago, died of pneumonia days later on April 27, and autopsy photos showed her vertebrae visible through numerous bedsores. On Wednesday, her daughters were charged with criminal neglect.

Something to keep in mind...frankly these sort of actions aren't brought frequently enough.

Full post as published by The Illinois Family Lawyer on January 10, 2008 (boomark / email).