Caretaker charged after elderly Pennsylvania woman dies from bed bugs – New York Daily News

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Updated: Monday, February 27, 2017, 5:07 PM

A Pennsylvania caretaker has been charged with slaying an elderly woman who died after a bed bug infestation.

Mary Stoner, a 96-year-old in rural West Manheim Township, died last year from sepsis stemming from a massive insect problem at the home where she was staying, according to an autopsy.

Prosecutors charging her caretaker, 72-year-old Deborah Butler, with neglect and involuntary manslaughter say that officers visited the house last February, and found bed bugs crawling on the walls and a bed where another elderly woman slept.

Stoners family moved their loved one away from Roberts, who previously ran a licensed facility, shortly after the police visit, but she died two weeks later after suffering from sores and pneumonia, according documents seen by The Evening Sun.

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Butler allegedly told the police that she had been trying to get rid of the bed bugs with home-bought supplies, and that she did not have enough money to get an exterminator.

After the death, police found that bed bugs crawling on Butler's 48-year-old developmentally disabled sister in the house.

Police said that it was obvious that serious medical attention was required for Stoner and faulted the caretaker, who said that she had taken her charge to the hospital weeks before, did not take her to the doctor again.

Butler has been released on $50,000 bond and faces a court date on March 9.

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