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Police: Maggots may have kept rotting Auburn woman alive. (seattlepi.com)
much more, making for equally queasy reading, at link aboveAn Auburn, Wash., woman accused of doing nothing while maggots gnawed at her elderly mother now faces a felony elder-abuse charge.
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Deputies and medics arrived to find the older woman stuck to her bedding. According to charging papers, a deputy looking into the bedroom window saw maggots crawling in a large open wound on the womans leg; the bed sheets were soiled with the byproducts of injury and covered in bugs.
As deputies entered the home, Sherrie Morton, 46, emerged from a rear bedroom. According to charging papers, Morton said shed been living at the home for 13 years and claimed her mothers injury was only a few days old.
Paramedics came to a different conclusion: The woman had been injured at least a month before, and the septic, gangrenous wound could have taken her leg.
The maggots may have helped keep (the woman) alive due to the fact that they were eating the rotting skin that was infected and helping to slow the infection, King County Sheriff's Det. Marylisa Priebe-Olson said.
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The detective noted large piles of garbage inside the home. Priebe-Olson noted in her report that the scent of rotting flesh, feces and ammonia was strong even through a protective mask.
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Morton has been charged with second-degree criminal mistreatment of a dependent person. She remains jailed on $150,000 bail.