Parents face charges after disabled daughter found ‘melted’ into couch from ‘severe chronic neglect’

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The death of a 36-year-old disabled Louisiana woman who appeared to have dissolved into the couch continued to send shock waves through the community this week as the otherwise upstanding parents will face a grand jury on Monday where the prosecutor will bring second-degree murder charges against them in connection with their daughter’s death.

On Jan. 3, Lacey Fletcher was found dead in a state of “severe chronic neglect” where she had been wallowing in her own excrement – possibly for several years -according to District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla, NOLA.com reported at the time. He noted that her hair was a tangled mess covered in maggots and her corpse had “rotted to the bone.”

“Shock… ’cause it doesn’t match any of my experience of him,” Program Director of the Baton Rouge Civil War Roundtable John Potts told KTAL this week. “He’s completely different than what you would expect someone like that to be.”

The parents were both active members of the community although several friends and neighbors were unaware the couple even had a child, let alone the fact that she was victim to a rare disease known as Locked In Syndrome that causes virtually complete paralysis except for the eyes.

“He mentioned that she passed in January, and that’s all I know of that,” Potts noted.

Lacey’s father, Clay Fletcher, had served as the Roundtable organization’s president until this past Tuesday. Her mother Sheila Fletcher worked for the city prosecutor, although she was recently put on administrative leave.

“The details are horrific, there is no doubt about that and I can’t conceive of how something like that can even happen,” Potts explained.

The coroner said it was one of the most horrific scenes he’s ever encountered.

“The scene was sickening. I’ve seen some horrible things in my life but nothing like this,” Dr. Ewell Dewitt Mickham III told the Daily Mail, noting that Lacey hadn’t seen a doctor in two decades.

‘It’s unconscionable, something you make horror movies about,’ he added.

The prosecutor wondered out loud how the situation spun so far out of control.

“The question on everybody’s mind is, how could they be caretakers living in the house with her and have her get in a condition like that?” the district attorney said. “It’s cruelty to the infirm. We can’t just let it sit.”

The attorney for Lacey’s parents released a statement last Wednesday noting the pain the couple is going through over the situation.

“They don’t want to relive the pain of losing a child through the media. They have been through a lot of heartache over the years. Anyone who had lost a child knows what it’s like.”

The shock reverberated through social media with many people condemning the parents for allowing the daughter to live in her own filth.
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12 thoughts on “Parents face charges after disabled daughter found ‘melted’ into couch from ‘severe chronic neglect’

  1. This is so outrageous! An unfortunate person with Locked-in Syndrome is well aware of his-her surroundings and what is going on. They just cannot move anything but their eyes. This poor girl was awake and aware as she was totally neglected and had to soil herself, never even changing clothes or being tube-fed for nourishment! These people should get life in prison and that is not severe enough!

  2. The lawyer says the parents are in pain over the situation? They did not take care of their daughter for crying out loud! This is premeditated murder, not second degree murder. They should get the Death penalty

  3. Did I read this right. This torture has been going on for over 2 decades. If she finally passed away in January. This is all strange that no one ever missed her presence or even make an effort to check on her well being. So much wrong with this situation. Those eye had to have cried for help and to be ignored by the ones who should’ve cared the most for your life. I couldn’t imagine the torment she felt day after day, night after night. May her soul rest in true peace.

    May we judge her parents flesh to death and God judge their souls to torment.

  4. They must have stopped feeding her at a point then let her die. What boggles the mind is not only how cruel they had to be, but it appears they lived in the same house. So they just let her die on the couch and continued to walk past her dead body smell and all. How?

  5. Seriously? The attorney for the parents said the parents are grieving and are in pain over the loss of their daughter, again- seriously? The daughter has seen a doctor in 2 decades. Where were the doctors who were supposed to be treating her, questioning about her? Seems to me there ought to be more than just the charges against the parents here!

  6. Make a bet, daughter has voted in all elections! Pillars of society, parents of the year! Send to prison on diet of cold slew for life.

  7. They dont want to relive the pain of losing their daughter is B.S.S. Bull Shite Spin. They caused more pain than they can imagine. Live with it because you wont escape it ever. Take your own medicine now. You dealt the cards , so now play your hand. There isnt any escape from your poker game. Your gonna end up with nothing and totally broke. Your going to prison. Your souls are going to desolve just like your beautiful daughter did because of your neglect and torture.

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