Two brothers face charges of cruelty to persons after they failed to properly care for their sick mother, who was found among rotting food and was covered with feces and blood, police said.
Ruth Lockard, 84, died a week after she was removed from the "completely filthy" home.
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Police had visited the home more than two years ago on April 1, 2010, according to an arrest warrant affidavit and noted that the home was "filthy and unfit." Police at the time reported that Ruth Lockard lived with her sons, and an officer recommended that state officials check in on her welfare.
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Police and paramedics were called again to Ruth Lockard's home on April 30, 2012, on a report that she was spitting up blood.
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"I observed Ruth was covered in human feces, blood, as well as [dried] feces on her feet," Windsor Locks Officer Andrew Dzierzgowski wrote in an arrest warrant affidavit. "I also observed human feces and blood scattered all over her bed sheets." There was rotten food all around her room, he wrote.
"The odor in the room was completely intolerable and the living conditions were one of the worst that I have seen in 12 years I have been employed with the Windsor Locks police department," Dzierzgowski wrote.
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