12-15-2010, 05:18 PM
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CINCINNATI -- A Madisonville man admitted to neglecting his invalid wife and allowing maggots to feed on her as she died.
Darrel White pleaded guilty Friday morning to failure to provide for a functionally impaired person and reckless homicide.
Officers were called to the couple's home July 23 found 46-year-old Jorene White dead and covered in flies and maggots.
An autopsy showed that the woman, who suffered from crippling arthritis, had been dead for only a day or so, and maggots had been feeding on her while she was still alive.
"The sores had gotten to the point that her body had actually started decomposing, and when a body starts decomposing, the flies move in and lay their eggs and they hatch, and they've got the larvae eating away at the body while she's still alive," said assistant prosecutor Mark Piepmeier.
The 65-year-old White said he was the sole caregiver for his wife since 2003.
"I did the best that I could under the conditions," White said.
Coroners said Jorene White died of a blood infection, and prosecutors said her husband did not seek treatment for her as she became ill.
"This guy, just after time, got overwhelmed and gradually stopped taking the proper care," Piepmeier said.
The couple's two adult sons lived in the home at the time, but prosecutors decided not to charge them because their father took responsibility for his wife's care and took action to conceal her condition from others.
"He made a point of saying he kept their mother totally covered from the neck down with sheets, and that he would never allow them in the room when he was changing her dressings and so forth," Piepmeier said.
The maximum sentence for White, if both are served consecutively, would be six and a half years.
CINCINNATI -- A Madisonville man admitted to neglecting his invalid wife and allowing maggots to feed on her as she died.
Darrel White pleaded guilty Friday morning to failure to provide for a functionally impaired person and reckless homicide.
Officers were called to the couple's home July 23 found 46-year-old Jorene White dead and covered in flies and maggots.
An autopsy showed that the woman, who suffered from crippling arthritis, had been dead for only a day or so, and maggots had been feeding on her while she was still alive.
"The sores had gotten to the point that her body had actually started decomposing, and when a body starts decomposing, the flies move in and lay their eggs and they hatch, and they've got the larvae eating away at the body while she's still alive," said assistant prosecutor Mark Piepmeier.
The 65-year-old White said he was the sole caregiver for his wife since 2003.
"I did the best that I could under the conditions," White said.
Coroners said Jorene White died of a blood infection, and prosecutors said her husband did not seek treatment for her as she became ill.
"This guy, just after time, got overwhelmed and gradually stopped taking the proper care," Piepmeier said.
The couple's two adult sons lived in the home at the time, but prosecutors decided not to charge them because their father took responsibility for his wife's care and took action to conceal her condition from others.
"He made a point of saying he kept their mother totally covered from the neck down with sheets, and that he would never allow them in the room when he was changing her dressings and so forth," Piepmeier said.
The maximum sentence for White, if both are served consecutively, would be six and a half years.