LA - Lacey Fletcher 36, GRAPHIC, disabled, found dead, on couch for years, Jan'22 *Parents arrested*

[killarney rose]

I believe them. But I also believe that Lacey was mentally ill and her parents should’ve known this and called for help. They should not have let her sit there in her own waste until she died. For this they need to be held accountable.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Never been sick? Bed sores? Oh, she didn’t complain about them. Sofa foam and feces in her stomach? Sepsis?
I just can’t imagine.

 

[Dotta]

The parents seem to behave like helpless kids.

Are they for real???

Sorry, I don't believe a single word they utter

 

[cvaldez1975]

i just cant wrap my mind around saying she was of sound mind to crap on the couch. no ma'am. help would have been sought immediately.

 

[Fika]

Never been sick? Bed sores? Oh, she didn’t complain about them. Sofa foam and feces in her stomach? Sepsis?
I just can’t imagine.

I don’t believe a word they say. She was never sick but then she was so sick that she died and it didn’t happen overnight.

 

[azure]

i just cant wrap my mind around saying she was of sound mind to crap on the couch. no ma'am. help would have been sought immediately.

They're going to try to keep up appearances right up until the bitter end, even in the face of all this horror. "Nothing was wrong with OUR daughter". I know the type, I have some in my own family. These people live in a constructed reality and wouldn't get help because they'd never admit anything was wrong. People might judge them if something was wrong with their daughter, so they just kept it "in the family", from using the restroom on a towel to dying of sepsis with couch foam in her stomach.

 

[Fika]

i just cant wrap my mind around saying she was of sound mind to crap on the couch. no ma'am. help would have been sought immediately.

Exactly, nobody of sound mind is using couch as a toilet and don’t leave the house for years also eat sofa foam and own waste. What they are saying is just insane.
Also one morning they woke up to her dead? How is that surprising to them? She was literally rotting there.
Its stunning to me that they don’t seem to understand what happened to her its like they still don’t understand their action.
It’s perplexing, anyone seeing her would be shocked and know immediately that she needs help. I can’t even look at the couch without feeling sick and if I seen her on it I would probably never be able to sleep yet they see nothing wrong here. It’s inhuman.

 

[MimosaMornings]

No grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins that went to see Lacey? No one?
This is incredibly sad.

 

[cvaldez1975]

They're going to try to keep up appearances right up until the bitter end, even in the face of all this horror. "Nothing was wrong with OUR daughter". I know the type, I have some in my own family. These people live in a constructed reality and wouldn't get help because they'd never admit anything was wrong. People might judge them if something was wrong with their daughter, so they just kept it "in the family", from using the restroom on a towel to dying of sepsis with couch foam in her stomach.

yes i honestly think thats it. they were about appearances and refused to admit to themselves Lacey was severely mentally ill.

 

[Marysmith]

The Nola article is behind a paywall but has more information.


In a Jan. 18 interview, the couple told detectives that their daughter was sound intellectually to the end. Autistic, she had developed “some degree of Asperger’s syndrome,” D’Aquilla said, citing reports.

The lifelong condition is part of a category called autism spectrum disorder. Symptoms include trouble with social skills and obsessive focus.

Fletcher attended Brownfields Baptist Academy in Baton Rouge through 9th grade before entering a home-school program. As a teen, she experienced severe social anxiety and met several times with a psychologist over three years. She saw a doctor years later, in 2010, while in her early 20’s, but never since, her parents said.

Her parents reported then that Fletcher had anchored herself in the living room and refused to leave. They brought her meals and set up a potty. Fletcher instead relieved herself into a towel or on the floor, afraid to leave the couch.

The Fletchers considered getting a commitment order to place their daughter in a medical facility, but she balked and it never happened, D’Aquilla said, citing a police report. The couple reported that Fletcher hadn’t seen a doctor in the past decade because she’d never been sick.

“I don’t think they (did) anything after that,” D’Aquilla said. “I think if somebody would have seen her that something would have been done.”

D’Aquilla said the couple was “adamant” that Lacey Fletcher was “of sound mind to make her own type of decisions.” The couple said Fletcher never complained of her sores and that Sheila Fletcher would routinely clean them.

Last fall, Fletcher began eating less, they told detectives. She ate half a sandwich and Cheetos on Jan. 2. Sheila Fletcher told detectives she last saw her daughter alive at 10 p.m. that night and awoke in a chair in the living room to find her dead.



A Slaughter woman died sunken into a couch. Her parents could soon face murder charges.

Wow. I’m sure that the claim of the sandwich and Cheetos can maybe be verified. Didn’t she have sofa foam in her stomach?!

 

[BeckyF]

I think mental illness plays a role--I hope so--otherwise, Lacey's parents are truly heartless monsters.

I’m not buying that both parents are mentally ill. JMO

 

[iamnotagolem]

No grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins that went to see Lacey? No one?
This is incredibly sad.

Even co-workers, friends, acquaintances, neighbors, no one ever said “hey what’s Lacey up to these days? Married? Kids? Where is she living?” I don’t understand how one day she went to school then went home and no one ever Asked bout her again.

 

[MsMarple]

The Nola article is behind a paywall but has more information.


In a Jan. 18 interview, the couple told detectives that their daughter was sound intellectually to the end. Autistic, she had developed “some degree of Asperger’s syndrome,” D’Aquilla said, citing reports.

The lifelong condition is part of a category called autism spectrum disorder. Symptoms include trouble with social skills and obsessive focus.

Fletcher attended Brownfields Baptist Academy in Baton Rouge through 9th grade before entering a home-school program. As a teen, she experienced severe social anxiety and met several times with a psychologist over three years. She saw a doctor years later, in 2010, while in her early 20’s, but never since, her parents said.

Her parents reported then that Fletcher had anchored herself in the living room and refused to leave. They brought her meals and set up a potty. Fletcher instead relieved herself into a towel or on the floor, afraid to leave the couch.

The Fletchers considered getting a commitment order to place their daughter in a medical facility, but she balked and it never happened, D’Aquilla said, citing a police report. The couple reported that Fletcher hadn’t seen a doctor in the past decade because she’d never been sick.

“I don’t think they (did) anything after that,” D’Aquilla said. “I think if somebody would have seen her that something would have been done.”

D’Aquilla said the couple was “adamant” that Lacey Fletcher was “of sound mind to make her own type of decisions.” The couple said Fletcher never complained of her sores and that Sheila Fletcher would routinely clean them.

Last fall, Fletcher began eating less, they told detectives. She ate half a sandwich and Cheetos on Jan. 2. Sheila Fletcher told detectives she last saw her daughter alive at 10 p.m. that night and awoke in a chair in the living room to find her dead.



A Slaughter woman died sunken into a couch. Her parents could soon face murder charges.

Mystery solved - it was all Lacey's fault, not theirs. Yes that's sarcasm.

GMAB. IMO they're lying about pretty much the whole situation. Instead of expressing remorse they're seeking sympathy for themselves. IMO it's not denial it's an attempt to avoid prison.

Nothing will convince me that Lacey "chose" to have feces and maggots in her hair or that the pressure ulcers didn't hurt. In fact some research suggests that "both sensory and cognitive experiences of pain are heightened and interact reciprocally in adults with ASD."

Lacey's parents saw nothing wrong with medically neglecting her over an extended period of time? The Grand Jury saw differently when they indicted both for second-degree murder.

 

[FlossyMay]

She didn't clean those bedsores. We know she didn't feed her every day either because they went on trips and left her there. They are lying.

 

[MrsWatson]

The Nola article is behind a paywall but has more information.


In a Jan. 18 interview, the couple told detectives that their daughter was sound intellectually to the end. Autistic, she had developed “some degree of Asperger’s syndrome,” D’Aquilla said, citing reports.


A Slaughter woman died sunken into a couch. Her parents could soon face murder charges.

RSBM

What reports? She hadn't seen a doctor in years, so where did this "report" come from? Dr. Google?

 

[passionflower]

Why didn’t they diaper her? Just like a baby? I could understand her in a bed. She needed help and never recieved it. Not even bathed or given meds, first aid!

 

[Dotta]

Dbm

 

[Eloise]

Why didn’t they diaper her? Just like a baby? I could understand her in a bed. She needed help and never recieved it. Not even bathed or given meds, first aid!

Agreed. That is how you care for a person who is incontinent (for whatever reason). Adult diapers. And get a hoist so you can move them from chair to bed and back again so they're not just in one spot. Get a wheelchair if she refused to walk anywhere so she could still see the sun and get some vitamin D. Give them sponge baths if they can't stand or even sit in the shower.
I've cared for people with disabilities who couldn't do any of that stuff for themselves. You don't just let them sit in their own filth.

 

[killarney rose]

Perhaps she fought them physically when they might’ve tried to do these things. However, after the first day or so when they saw what she was doing, that’s when they should’ve sought help for her. Even if it meant institutionalizing her. I can’t imagine letting my child sit in her own filth until she died. No matter how frustrating the situation had to have been.

 

[Marysmith]

Perhaps she fought them physically when they might’ve tried to do these things. However, after the first day or so when they saw what she was doing, that’s when they should’ve sought help for her. Even if it meant institutionalizing her. I can’t imagine letting my child sit in her own filth until she died. No matter how frustrating the situation had to have been.

Absolutely. And if she fought them that was years and maybe decades ago possibly!
IMO there is no defense that they could give that would justify what happened.