Obese Woman Dead After Rescue From Detroit-Area Home

[Northerner]

A bedridden, obese woman who was rescued by a HAZMAT team from her Warren, Mich. home after she was found living in a home containing feces and maggots died Monday at a local hospital.

On Tuesday, morbid obesity and complications from multiple injuries were determined as the cause of death, which was ruled accidental, according to the Macomb Daily. Authorities have not determined whether they will file charges of neglect.

The 41-year-old woman, whose name was not released, had been in the hospital since last Tuesday. Emergency workers first responded to a 911 call from her husband who said she was unable to get out of bed, according to the Detroit Free Press.

"I love her and it was hard, and it was just me," he told the paper. "And I just did the best I could for so long."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/500-pound-woman-dead-detroit_n_2005929.html

Forty one is no age at all, poor woman

 

[Northerner]

Update to story - Warren man charged with neglect in obese, bedridden wife's death

A Warren man faces a felony neglect charge in the death of his bedridden wife after investigators said he allowed the obese woman to deteriorate while lying in her own waste.

Michael Brooks is to be arraigned today on a charge of second-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult -- a four-year felony, Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith said Wednesday.

"He left his wife in her own excrement for days, with her not having the ability to do anything about it," Smith said.

Brooks told police that he was his wife's primary caregiver, Smith said.

"And certainly his inaction rose to the level of a felony," Smith said.

http://www.freep.com/article/201211...-with-neglect-in-obese-bedridden-wife-s-death