How – After hit which had forced her to bed with serious repercussions on her mobility, but not on her ability to perceive what was happening around her, had been abandoned in bed. Without any care for her hygiene, to the point of causing infections and diseases generated by the dirt in which she lived. All of this, within the domestic walls, in the same house where her husband and daughter lived, who ended up on trial yesterday for mistreatment. The victimwho is now 63 years old and has partially recovered from the devastated condition in which she was found by social services, had a stroke in 2008, resulting in “impaired walking and assistance with postural changes”.
For about ten years she was entrusted to the care of a day center, and then she was discharged and returned home, with a financial contribution to support her husband, 66 years old, and her cohabiting daughter, 27 years old. The discovery of the conditions where the woman was left dates back to a year later, June 2020, on the occasion of a hospitalization, as she was pale and had recurrent episodes of nausea.
The assistants they had found her in bed in a state of total neglect, with fourth-stage bedsores, covered in excrement and mycosis in her private parts, a “significant edema from redness in the soft parts” in her groin, a cast on her leg that was now brown and smelly. In addition to this, long and dirty nails, unchangeable underwear. Immediately assisted and subjected to all the necessary care, the woman gradually recovered, while her husband and daughter are now on trial, accused of mistreatment by the deputy prosecutor of Como Antonia Pavan.