Two Louisiana parents could be charged with murder after their disabled daughter was found "melted" into a couch.
The body of 36-year-old Lacey Fletcher was discovered at her home in the tiny quiet town of Slaughter back on January 3, in what can only be described as abhorrent circumstances.
Coroner Dr. Ewell Bickham estimated that the woman had been sat in the same place for years — to the point she had literally become fused to the furniture.
"I couldn't eat for a week & I cried for a week," Dr. Bickham said.
“When I first walked in the house, it smelled of feces, fecal material, however you want to put that politely, it stunk," he recalled. "And when I got to the body, the individual was basically sitting in a hole, filled with liquid stool & urine."
The victim, he said, was covered from head to toe in urine & liquid feces, with bed sores that went down to the bone & was crawling with insects. She weighed just 96lbs.
Fletcher reportedly suffered from locked-in syndrome, unable to move any muscles besides her eyes. Her parents were supposed to be her caretakers.
Bickham claimed she had been left to use the couch as a latrine, and she had eventually melted through the upholstery of the 1960′s-style sofa.
"It's the worst form of medical neglect I've ever seen. I don't know any other adjectives or adverbs to add to that," Bickham said, claiming she had been neglected for at least a decade.
"I've never seen anything like this, that literally turned my stomach as bad as it did," the coroner said. "It literally got me emotional, and I'm a strong person."
Her parents called 911 on January 3 when they noticed she'd stopped breathing; first responders entered the otherwise idyllic home to find the nightmarish scene:
After an autopsy, Jefferson Parish Forensic Center ruled the death a homicide.
Fletcher's parents have not been arrested or charged with any crime. But District Attorney Sam D'Aquilla has called on the grand jury to consider second-degree murder.
Other potential charges include manslaughter, cruelty to the infirmed, negligent homicide — or none at all.
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