12/2021:
According to court documents, officers responded to a home on S. Meridian Street in Lebanon on April 2 in response to an unresponsive male. Inside, officers found the couple’s 23-year-old son breathing but not alert.
Police said the couple’s son is diagnosed with Spina Bifida and had been unable to move on his own without assistance for several months. Police learned later during their investigation that he had been confined to a bed since January 2021.
When officers arrived at the home, they reported an extremely foul odor of feces and urine. Police reported that the disabled man was found in a soiled bed, his lower body covered in feces. Bugs and maggots also covered the man’s bed and body, police reported, along with mice droppings.
In addition to the unsanitary living conditions, the 23-year-old had numerous open sores with protruding bone visible in some of the wounds.
Doctors told officers they believed the wounds developed due to the victim being confined to his bed without moving for an extended period of time.
Transported to a hospital, the 23-year-old’s wounds were so severe that doctors told police they were “non-healable” and that they were life-threatening.
Family of the 23-year-old tell FOX59 that part of one leg has now been amputated, just below the knee. They also said, “Back in April, the surgery was to be everything below the bellybutton. He wasn’t strong enough to survive that. When he got COVID, the virus settled in one of his legs. They took that leg in a much shorter manageable surgery.”
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