@@lyanna0330 I think it was from years of bodily fluids building up. From what I heard, she literally lived on that couch for years. Like...no toilet, no bathing, no getting up (as she was disabled), just years of melding to the couch (sorry if too graphic, my heart hurts for what she went through).
@@lizbensoncoxoh, absolutely! The bodily fluids, the insects, her digging into the foam, desperate to find something to eat. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. 😢
They walked past her every day while she festered in her own rotting stench and ignored the person they claimed to love? Hope they get 40 year's in prison! 😢
The smell alone would be more than unbearable with all the excrement for soooo many years leaking thru the couch and the flooring that was staring to buckle. This young lady was found with her shirt not even covering her torso and she was stuck to the couch and she was eating it. This is wayyy sicker than people could fathom. This is torture, period.
You saw the movie seven?they show a man who is been in bed one year no food .this is the most horrible ting i seen in real life.and like you say the smell i can imagine send you a hug i feel this is been hard for you too❤
@@josie4peace Oh exactly! They weren't without means or education. They could have gotten help for her. And since the daughter was an adult (I think 36 yrs), and severely disabled, they possibly could have placed her in an institution of some sort (care home, nursing home, etc., I would think?) if they deemed themselves unable to care for her. Sounds a bit heartless, perhaps, but ever so much better than what they actually did! I think my heart is hurting these days for the senseless suffering inflicted by outwardly decent looking parents, who are capable of such savage acts behind closed doors. I'm in Michigan. We had the case of the woman who tortured and starved her disabled son recently. So sad. My heart hurts for Timothy Ferguson, for Lacey Fletcher, for all those whose voices were heard too late. 💔
@@lizbensoncox YOU are a compassionate soul. Thank you for blessing me with your words and sincerity. I know what you mean. When I first heard this story, it "haunted" me for days on end. As a Christian, I asked the Lord why did she have to suffer for SO long? I know they will have their day of judgment, but my heart aches knowing at this moment someone is being neglected, held captive, abused, and so on. Animal abuse is just as bad. It's all such a trigger for me. I hope the Lord returns soon...Lord bless & keep you 💖
And the parents just lived with their daughter’s remains like that for so long seeing it every day and going on with their day-to-day lives as though everything was fine is unbelievable. At some point the smell must’ve been horrific.
We learned with the Turpin family that being church members and having a high income job has zero bearing on how they treat their own children. This is disgusting!!!
Wow, you mean to tell me that up until you heard about that Turpin case you didn't think rich religious frauds could harm their own children?! Damn, where have you been?! Those are some of the worse ones, they literally try to twist the bible to justify all of their actions, then blame God! So many horrific things have been done in the name of God for pretty much a THOUSAND plus years! Welcome to planet Earth!
Lacey's parents remind me so much of the Turpin parents and how they also kept their children malnurished and filthy like how Lacey was kept in similar manner.
Some church people show up, recite words out of the Bible and go through the motions of what they see others do on Sunday morning.... but show ZERO comprehension of what they read/desire to carry over and apply scriptural wisdom by HOW THEY LIVE THEIR ACTUAL LIVES 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Too stuck in their ways/ego/pride to follow the word of God. They appear to do ANYTHING but self assess/reflect on their part in thiings especially when it comes to challenging situations behind closed doors/away from public scrutiny. They avoided putting in the essential effort and time to research/seek assistance in order to find out how they could make their sick daughter's life as positive and comfortable as possible. Challenging circumstances BEHIND CLOSED DOORS do not matter to them. Demons that just put on a public act for ego strokes and narcissistic supply. Demons
Its there and people around the world already knew yet they still supported the "parents". Doubt the community wasn't aware at some point or are not even curious where Lacy was. The case is already right in front their faces yet they still believe the aweful "parents". How far can you be from reality to do that.
This is nuts to me. I've had friends with housebound relatives and I've offered to pop round and visit (to give the relative some company & the carers a bit of a break). To "melt" into a couch like that would have taken years, which means that nobody visited for years. I could see that happening if they were loners who didn't interact, but active members of the community? No. They either lied to keep people away (showing that they knew what they were doing, making this much more than manslaughter) or people didn't offer - making them less of a "community", and more a heartless bunch of enablers.
I have been a mortician for thirty years. Decomposition cases this extreme, will literally, knock the wind out of you when you enter the room. That sort of heavy, stench defiles everything in the general area. I can't imagine the parents being able to breath without vomiting. Not to mention, doing that to their daughter. Scary maniacs!
exactly...makes me think of jeffrey dahmer's apartment..nobody could stand more than 1 minute without running outside to vomit...this is way worse..and that's a terrifying thought and image..the mother's recliner was next to lacey..she ate there and watched tv...this is more inhuman than dahmer...
"Learned helplessness?" I am a chronically ill daughter, 58, who has lived with my mother who has also been my caregiver since 1995. I am mostly bedbound and have a bed on the main floor livingroom space. My mother would NEVER allow me to be so neglected that I'm fused to the couch. That's just unimaginable.
I don't understand that anyone could carry on and support these two. Writing letters and parading with them. Unbelievable. Why couldn't they just have her moved to a care facility? I can't grasp this.
This is *not* love. NO human who *genuinely* cares and loves their children would ever think of this as parental love. These so-called parents tortured Lacey -- even if they may be clinically insane, it will NEVER change the fact that leaving her in utter neglect like that and not seeking help is straight up *demonic* :(
According to the NY Post, she suffered from locked in syndrome which is caused by damage to the brain stem. Typically it leaves people completely paralyzed minus the eye and respiratory muscles and leaves people totally bed bound (can't even support the head). At most, patients can communicate with eye movements/blinks. If this reporting is true it's kind of crazy other news sites are presenting it as though autism was the main debilitating factor when locked-in syndrom is probably the most debilitating disorder you can have and not be 100% brain dead So I think the friends get a pass because like I said, people with LIS are bed bound so unless they visited the house, no way for them to know. That said, no excuse for the parents who should have recognized they could not handle the situation and had her in a skilled nursing facility. To think this poor girl was conscious the entire time (locked in does leave you aware) is a terrifying thought. (NY post also reported no decomposition and that the cause of death was sepsis from infected pressure ulcers and starvation)
Something like this happening takes a LONG time. An insanely long time. There were YEARS where they could've intervened. If they didn't want to help her/didn't care, they could've called 911 and surrendered her to the state. She would've classified as gravely disabled and could be taken to a nursing facility. These people are beyond horrific. Shame on the church for supporting them.
Exactly. And them being church-going people should NOT garner any support or sympathy from any church member.. the fact some of them are actually walking alongside them in solidarity makes me sick, like WTF!!! They basically killed their own daughter! Disgusting behaviour from everyone all across the board.
According to the NY Post she suffered locked-in syndrome which is a disorder of the brain stem that leaves you almost completely paralyzed minus respiratory and eye muscles (some variation depending on severity). Some are able to communicate with eye movements/blinks. If this is true, it's kind of crazy that no one else is reporting it as I would definitely say that is the more debilitating affliction (opposed to autism). Either way, she should have been in a nursing facility if parents were unable to take care of her. To leave her on that couch in her own feces/urine and unfed is disgusting. Also, apparently there was no decomposition meaning she was alive for the vast majority of that time. She ended up dying of sepsis due to infected open pressure ulcers/sores that were exposed to bone and maggots were eating her alive. I try not to judge anyone who has a loved one in that sort of condition but there really is no excuse for letting it turn into that.
Having a daughter with Autism that will most likely be living with us for the rest of her life I understand the difficulty and challenges but I couldn't imagine neglecting her like this.
I have a son with autism and I can't understand how anyone can do that, it breaks my heart, they are gifts from God who have hearts of gold . God bless you and your beautiful family
She didn’t have locked in syndrome. The coroner said her legs were crossed because she had tried to get out of the hole, was too weak and failed, and there she stayed. She was able to move; she was picking the couch and eating it because she was being starved.
All they had to do was ask for help ..pick up the phone and say we can not care for her so sad ..wouldnt treat an animal the way they treated her ..i can only imagine the neglect she saw over her lifetime
I live in south Australia and a few years back there was a lady here that was left in her chair for over a year...very sad case😢. PS it was her Carer that left her like that. I think the name of the poor woman was Anne Marie Smith... I'll double check with Google
It's not too uncommon in another way, where someone passes away on their sofa or recliner and doesn't have anyone who checks on them frequently. But that's all after death, I cannot imagine how she went through that all while she was still alive.
That nuclear power plant that the father worked at must’ve FRIED his freaking BRAIN!! WHAT “parent” could let their daughter SUFFER what HAD to have been such a HORRIFIC SLOW and PAINFUL DEATH?? WTF??
40 years ago we had Bundy, Dahmer, BTK, etc walking around killing kids and women and storing their heads in freezers. 60 years ago it was legal to be openly racist to people who aren’t white and tell them to use a separate fountain. 80 years ago a certain country gassed millions of jews and Japan pillaged/mass raped several Asian countries. 200 years ago slavery was legal. 300 years ago our form of local capital punishment was tying a woman and drowning or burning them because someone said they were a witch. I promise you there were no “good old days”. You were just young and look back at your childhood with rose colored glasses.
As a parent myself, this story has affected me on a deep level. I can’t fathom how you can let your child die in such an inhumane way. The parents have to have some mental issues themselves to just do absolutely nothing while your child dies slowly in your own house, walking by every day. It’s a very sad story. At least she’s no longer suffering anymore.
I'm just wondering if anyone the parents came into contact with ever thought they smelled? There's no way they didn't have that "sewer/rotting" odor coming from Lacey clinging to them if they lived in that house.
A lady I nursed had her bra and tshirt anastamosed to her body as she had mental illness and didn’t shower and her husband was a farmer busy on the farm and couldn’t get her in the shower . After a few years he finally took her to ED where her clothes were surgically removed. We ended up with her in the nursing home. She was catatonic schizophrenic. Unfortunately this happens to ppl
Yes, it happens, but it also needs to be PREVENTED! As in, if parents, spouses, etc do not want to care for these loved ones, at least take them where they can be treated better!
I can't even fathom this. This is absolutely not Christian and is unbiblical. I pray for their souls that they may realize what they've done and repent.
@@gregorygrimm5540 to those of us who believe it is about there hearts and their relationship with God, and with this I can say that the relationship between these people and their savior is really messed up on their side..
@@marianparoo1544 Everything! for those of us who believe in Jesus Christ, these people claim to be followers? Please , this is not Christ-like, and they will have to answer... To those of you who don't believe, well that's sad for you and one day you will find all the answers, I pray you will know the truth before then.
This is terrible to even think about. They didn’t love her at all. Sad she didn’t have anyone to even come check to see how she was doing but i’m sure parents just kept lying over and over . They deserve life in prison:
These people are monsters! How can you treat your own daughter like that. And whoever hell is supporting them ( The people at their church) need to wake the hell up and realize who you are supporting. Good people don't do what they did to their daughter.
Since they took a plea deal, will it ever come to that? The only thing now will be sentencing and I think just a judge will decide how long they get but I'm not positive.
The fact that their friends from church are supporting them could mean they knew what was happening to the daughter and somehow condoned it. Horrible. How can a person support the abuser?
No, the people at church no doubt gave all their prayers and sympathy. All their attention....to the parents. I hope they now realize how evil these people. I'm sure they told the church they were completely martyred and spent ALL their time tending to her. I cannot picture them going to church and telling them "Feel bad for us, as she's rotting on the couch."
Because of their beliefs I'm afraid, as Christians they project evil onto people and situations, no doubt they believed their daughter has the devil inside her, and tried to get rid of it... They're quite bizzare in their designation of evil...😢😢
My mother would do the same to me and my father would not say a word because he was bullied. This is not the norm but happens in different levels of brutality. My parents were "so called" good people.
If you never met a parent like this you couldnt understand...some parents dont know what 2 do so they just ignore the situation...they dont check on their kids, they just ignore the kid or kids...and the mental illness the kids have gets worse...
Whoever wrote letters for these people need help themselves no excuse for what they did stupidity, ignorance and beyond ignoring a problem is why this happened. Horrific
I just can't believe they didn't hospitalize her! She was probably getting government disability or something and had healthcare, right? Why couldn't those two talk to their preacher about how to handle their daughter? So many questions! 🤮
My husbands family just had a man that passed away who didn't talk to anyone. The mail kept piling up and the neighbors decided to call for a welfare check on him and he had been in his chair for over 4 months! I guess it was pretty bad
No excuse for this baby girls suffering. As a mother and father we’re to protect our children. To let your child literally decompose and starve to death is beyond unacceptable. Our children are always our babies no matter how old they get. They should keep that couch for the jury to see and especially how strong the smell of rotting flesh is. To truly see how horrific her suffering was, HELL on earth! Not buying any excuses they come up with. We never know what people are doing behind closed doors. Face value means nothing, EVIL WITH NO SOUL.
Those parents are evil and anyone who says otherwise is full of it! Their daughter was eaten alive by maggots while she rotted in her own waste for years and they lived with this and looked at it everyday. Sick!
There is something atrociously missing in a person that could let this happen, especially a disabled person thats already vulnerable. Just monstrous & dark hearted. 🥀
Exactly, if I were their lawyer, I would make sure justice is served for Lacey by putting them behind bars, defense attorneys is a protocol but when your client is guilty, is guilty
I'm a Christian and I don't understand it. If I had a son who committed murder I wouldn't plead for leniency. I would still love my son. I would write and visit and pray but he would have to pay his debt. How can these "Christians" actually have the nerve to write letters saying what good people the parents are. Well everyone now knows they absolutely are not. And to ask for mercy? That's an insult to the daughter they said they loved.
Think about how materials break down over time when subjected to stressors and how they dissolve in liquids. With that in mind, it means she sat on the sofa until her skin/body started breaking down, and the couch started breaking down. From the looks, she probably (obviously) deficated and urinated where she was, sitting in that is going to cause sores and all kinds of awful. It's a horrific story.
How do you even start to comprehend any of this…. HOW did this happen??? WHY??? I can’t believe that not one church member cared enough to go and visit this girl. Perhaps someone tried and the parents deterred any visits. Which if that were the case that would have raised a flag to me.
They stopped caring for her when she became an adult, if not always. Smh. How the church members can get behind the parents on this is beyond me. I don't get it. They clearly neglected their daughter and let her die a horrible death without any love or compassion for her. I don't feel sorry for them, and I hope the judge throws the book at them.
Why didn't the doctor ask the police for a welfare check if he was worried about Lacey? He left her to die too. Shame on the parent's wonderful Christian church friends. Hypocrits!!!
when a coroner is literally traumatized you know its really bad
Exactly what I thought…
It horrifies me as an archaeologist as well. Never have I ever seen someone's death be this bad.
@@sneakyviewing4391can you explain how exactly the couch melted like that? It is the reaction from decomposition? Im shocked
@@lyanna0330 I think it was from years of bodily fluids building up. From what I heard, she literally lived on that couch for years. Like...no toilet, no bathing, no getting up (as she was disabled), just years of melding to the couch (sorry if too graphic, my heart hurts for what she went through).
@@lizbensoncoxoh, absolutely! The bodily fluids, the insects, her digging into the foam, desperate to find something to eat. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. 😢
The pain, the smells, the agony…this poor young lady suffered.
Her poor body and mind 💔
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They walked past her every day while she festered in her own rotting stench and ignored the person they claimed to love? Hope they get 40 year's in prison! 😢
Shouldn't it be life in prison, since they took hers?
@@josie4peace 40 years will be life in prison for this couple. With a manslaughter plea, they cannot get a higher sentence, unfortunately.
@@AnastaciaInCleveland Thank you for clarifying. :o)
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The smell alone would be more than unbearable with all the excrement for soooo many years leaking thru the couch and the flooring that was staring to buckle. This young lady was found with her shirt not even covering her torso and she was stuck to the couch and she was eating it. This is wayyy sicker than people could fathom. This is torture, period.
I cannot believe that this is a true story. I cannot imagine how sick and twisted her parents are. What was wrong with them?
You saw the movie seven?they show a man who is been in bed one year no food .this is the most horrible ting i seen in real life.and like you say the smell i can imagine send you a hug i feel this is been hard for you too❤
Exactly. And by the looks of their finely manicured lawn and home, they could have afforded to get her help!
@@josie4peace Oh exactly! They weren't without means or education. They could have gotten help for her. And since the daughter was an adult (I think 36 yrs), and severely disabled, they possibly could have placed her in an institution of some sort (care home, nursing home, etc., I would think?) if they deemed themselves unable to care for her. Sounds a bit heartless, perhaps, but ever so much better than what they actually did!
I think my heart is hurting these days for the senseless suffering inflicted by outwardly decent looking parents, who are capable of such savage acts behind closed doors. I'm in Michigan. We had the case of the woman who tortured and starved her disabled son recently. So sad. My heart hurts for Timothy Ferguson, for Lacey Fletcher, for all those whose voices were heard too late. 💔
@@lizbensoncox YOU are a compassionate soul. Thank you for blessing me with your words and sincerity. I know what you mean. When I first heard this story, it "haunted" me for days on end. As a Christian, I asked the Lord why did she have to suffer for SO long? I know they will have their day of judgment, but my heart aches knowing at this moment someone is being neglected, held captive, abused, and so on. Animal abuse is just as bad. It's all such a trigger for me. I hope the Lord returns soon...Lord bless & keep you 💖
And the parents just lived with their daughter’s remains like that for so long seeing it every day and going on with their day-to-day lives as though everything was fine is unbelievable. At some point the smell must’ve been horrific.
Lmao, yeah my mom would of yelled at me to clean myself up and then call the cops on me for not jumping right up and doing it!
@@bobhope4949she definitely cares more than these two!
@@colorbugoriginals4457 no….. she literally told me she doesn’t care
@@bobhope4949 wow, i am so sorry. you deserved better. stay strong ❤️
@@colorbugoriginals4457 it’s ok, I take my anger out on society, very therapeutic!👌
To defend these people is disgusting, I don't care how long you've known them.
I wonder how many of these people even knew they had a daughter.
@@redhouse3994You have taken the words out my mouth, probably none of them, they should be ashamed walking with them for support.
Those church ppl done lost their minds!
We learned with the Turpin family that being church members and having a high income job has zero bearing on how they treat their own children. This is disgusting!!!
They had their own church though
They all are Democrats. And Democrats will support parents like this
Wow, you mean to tell me that up until you heard about that Turpin case you didn't think rich religious frauds could harm their own children?! Damn, where have you been?! Those are some of the worse ones, they literally try to twist the bible to justify all of their actions, then blame God! So many horrific things have been done in the name of God for pretty much a THOUSAND plus years! Welcome to planet Earth!
Lacey's parents remind me so much of the Turpin parents and how they also kept their children malnurished and filthy like how Lacey was kept in similar manner.
The parents were not a church person, they use church to cover up the truth the way they treat their child.
This story is completely incomprehensible. And the church is supporting them?? That's even more unbelievable, and shameful.
Typical church these days.
The church part is the least unbelievable of it all
It is a demon possessed church. We are in the falling away. These people are really far gone.
They tortured their own child for 12 years and the church goers support them SMH 🤦♀️
@@flowerpower3618 ok so you don’t think laying in your own sh*t for a decade is torture
Disgusting. Also no one in that church or family members suspected anything without seeing the disabled daughter in all those years? No one noticed!?!
Some church people show up, recite words out of the Bible and go through the motions of what they see others do on Sunday morning.... but show ZERO comprehension of what they read/desire to carry over and apply scriptural wisdom by HOW THEY LIVE THEIR ACTUAL LIVES 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Too stuck in their ways/ego/pride to follow the word of God. They appear to do ANYTHING but self assess/reflect on their part in thiings especially when it comes to challenging situations behind closed doors/away from public scrutiny. They avoided putting in the essential effort and time to research/seek assistance in order to find out how they could make their sick daughter's life as positive and comfortable as possible. Challenging circumstances BEHIND CLOSED DOORS do not matter to them. Demons that just put on a public act for ego strokes and narcissistic supply. Demons
Its there and people around the world already knew yet they still supported the "parents". Doubt the community wasn't aware at some point or are not even curious where Lacy was. The case is already right in front their faces yet they still believe the aweful "parents". How far can you be from reality to do that.
I know right SMH no one noticed she was missing
This is nuts to me. I've had friends with housebound relatives and I've offered to pop round and visit (to give the relative some company & the carers a bit of a break).
To "melt" into a couch like that would have taken years, which means that nobody visited for years. I could see that happening if they were loners who didn't interact, but active members of the community? No. They either lied to keep people away (showing that they knew what they were doing, making this much more than manslaughter) or people didn't offer - making them less of a "community", and more a heartless bunch of enablers.
Oh they knew. . . .
Clearly something way more sinister was actually going on than we realize. .
Truly disturbing
I have been a mortician for thirty years. Decomposition cases this extreme, will literally, knock the wind out of you when you enter the room. That sort of heavy, stench defiles everything in the general area. I can't imagine the parents being able to breath without vomiting. Not to mention, doing that to their daughter. Scary maniacs!
exactly...makes me think of jeffrey dahmer's apartment..nobody could stand more than 1 minute without running outside to vomit...this is way worse..and that's a terrifying thought and image..the mother's recliner was next to lacey..she ate there and watched tv...this is more inhuman than dahmer...
Evil!
"Learned helplessness?"
I am a chronically ill daughter, 58, who has lived with my mother who has also been my caregiver since 1995.
I am mostly bedbound and have a bed on the main floor livingroom space. My mother would NEVER allow me to be so neglected that I'm fused to the couch. That's just unimaginable.
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I don't understand that anyone could carry on and support these two. Writing letters and parading with them. Unbelievable.
Why couldn't they just have her moved to a care facility? I can't grasp this.
Social security money maybe?
Right , it happened overnight 😮 😢
Probably!@@rociohernandez5429
Puke
When evil tries to hide behind religion.
Exactly. It's not uncommon in varying degrees.
IMO and experience, religion IS evil.
Religion is the root of all evil
Lot of that going on.
That's literally the point of religion...to hide evil.
He just said they loved their daughter to death and I’m going to take that to mean literally
This is *not* love. NO human who *genuinely* cares and loves their children would ever think of this as parental love. These so-called parents tortured Lacey -- even if they may be clinically insane, it will NEVER change the fact that leaving her in utter neglect like that and not seeking help is straight up *demonic* :(
How can those church people help them knowing they never seen her in years 😔 GUILTY evil 😈 parents.
Says a lot about church people
Amen!
According to the NY Post, she suffered from locked in syndrome which is caused by damage to the brain stem. Typically it leaves people completely paralyzed minus the eye and respiratory muscles and leaves people totally bed bound (can't even support the head). At most, patients can communicate with eye movements/blinks. If this reporting is true it's kind of crazy other news sites are presenting it as though autism was the main debilitating factor when locked-in syndrom is probably the most debilitating disorder you can have and not be 100% brain dead
So I think the friends get a pass because like I said, people with LIS are bed bound so unless they visited the house, no way for them to know. That said, no excuse for the parents who should have recognized they could not handle the situation and had her in a skilled nursing facility. To think this poor girl was conscious the entire time (locked in does leave you aware) is a terrifying thought. (NY post also reported no decomposition and that the cause of death was sepsis from infected pressure ulcers and starvation)
I am not religious at all but maybe because they are taught not to judge people. Dont they think judgement should be left to god and all that?
Because there church people
Even more disgusting is the "Community" is supporting them....ugh!
Doesn't say much for the community or church. These parents are not human. The ppl in community not much better.
These people are like vampires
@@Truth72500 More like Parasites, Vampires are at least Cool, lol
Only Democrats would support them
Only Democrats would allow this. And only Democrats would back these monsters
Something like this happening takes a LONG time. An insanely long time. There were YEARS where they could've intervened. If they didn't want to help her/didn't care, they could've called 911 and surrendered her to the state. She would've classified as gravely disabled and could be taken to a nursing facility.
These people are beyond horrific. Shame on the church for supporting them.
Exactly. And them being church-going people should NOT garner any support or sympathy from any church member.. the fact some of them are actually walking alongside them in solidarity makes me sick, like WTF!!! They basically killed their own daughter! Disgusting behaviour from everyone all across the board.
No contest means they knew what they were doing. And willing to take 10-15 instead of going to trial and ending up dying in prison
How could parents walk by their CHILD everyday while she's laying there in that condition.
Just absolutely eVL !
Because the parents are evil.
According to the NY Post she suffered locked-in syndrome which is a disorder of the brain stem that leaves you almost completely paralyzed minus respiratory and eye muscles (some variation depending on severity). Some are able to communicate with eye movements/blinks.
If this is true, it's kind of crazy that no one else is reporting it as I would definitely say that is the more debilitating affliction (opposed to autism). Either way, she should have been in a nursing facility if parents were unable to take care of her. To leave her on that couch in her own feces/urine and unfed is disgusting. Also, apparently there was no decomposition meaning she was alive for the vast majority of that time. She ended up dying of sepsis due to infected open pressure ulcers/sores that were exposed to bone and maggots were eating her alive.
I try not to judge anyone who has a loved one in that sort of condition but there really is no excuse for letting it turn into that.
@@Tyler-vw9bh
Whatever the situation was,
Friends and family of that family,
Are just as guilty as the parents are: if one could even call them that.
Didn't she get up and use the restroom??? How long was she there? How can you not help her
Oh BS you do not know that. I bet she wanted to go. people choose not to stretch out their suffering.
This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever heard 😢
It’s clearly parental neglect. Just absolutely disgusting
This is way more than neglect!
This is far beyond .
Neglect ... What ? What cave did you crawl out ?
It’s premeditated murder
It probably is human sacrificing.
They should have never been offered a plea.
Yeah, but who wants to pay for THAT trial. I mean, jeeez.
Courts are in on it. Courts are letting the criminals go free now.
Having a daughter with Autism that will most likely be living with us for the rest of her life I understand the difficulty and challenges but I couldn't imagine neglecting her like this.
I bet a million dollars u would call an ambulance etc way before she got in this condition
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The smell alone, even if they didn't care. What is wrong with them. What was the girls illness?
@@annabrahamson4320 I think she had autism but don't quote me on that as it's been too long to remember
I have a son with autism and I can't understand how anyone can do that, it breaks my heart, they are gifts from God who have hearts of gold . God bless you and your beautiful family
I can’t imagine the pain she went through before passing. 😢
This is so tragic. Parents are supposed to love and care for their children. If only Lacey had someone advocate for her. It’s just so sad.
This is so very sad. She had locked in syndrome .. basically paralyzed. She should have been in a care facility where people could care for her needs.
Same as Celine Dion who just appeared at awards.
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They may have the same diagnosis .. but it presents differently in different individuals.
Celine Dion has stiff person syndrome, not locked in syndrome.@@joywebster2678
She didn’t have locked in syndrome. The coroner said her legs were crossed because she had tried to get out of the hole, was too weak and failed, and there she stayed. She was able to move; she was picking the couch and eating it because she was being starved.
@@ApacheMagic
Hmmm ..
I guess the coroner was there watching her?
Evil.
Those people in that "church" should be ashamed of supporting their insanity. All they should be doing is praying.
It is not a real church. These false churches will do this sort of thing. They are incredibly evil.
Agree, these frauds r pathetic
Oh YES... PRAYERS WORK EVERYTIME. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢🤨🤨
How have praying worked for u ??? Let's hear the MIR@acles worked 4 u?
No
All they had to do was ask for help ..pick up the phone and say we can not care for her so sad ..wouldnt treat an animal the way they treated her ..i can only imagine the neglect she saw over her lifetime
My dad is a retired mortician. Never seen, heard of anyone EVER melt in a couch. This is a crazy story. Once in a lifetime type of story...
I live in south Australia and a few years back there was a lady here that was left in her chair for over a year...very sad case😢. PS it was her Carer that left her like that. I think the name of the poor woman was Anne Marie Smith... I'll double check with Google
It's not too uncommon in another way, where someone passes away on their sofa or recliner and doesn't have anyone who checks on them frequently. But that's all after death, I cannot imagine how she went through that all while she was still alive.
@@colorbugoriginals4457 And she had caretakers 🤦♂️
Yes, maybe alone..but this daughter had 2 CAPABLE parents!!!@@colorbugoriginals4457
I heard a story on the Internet that a lady grew onto a toilet seat.
This is hard to wrap your head around…..
That poor girl, just horrific.
That nuclear power plant that the father worked at must’ve FRIED his freaking BRAIN!! WHAT “parent” could let their daughter SUFFER what HAD to have been such a HORRIFIC SLOW and PAINFUL DEATH?? WTF??
The world's getting older and the people are getting sicker .
Nah human nature is pretty consistent
@@kabeblak3606 nah it wasn't you must be young .
Humanity has been sick from day one. It's just that every now and then we fool ourselves into thinking we're better than that
@@DrinkTheKoolAid62 another young person that has not been around long enough to know about the good old days were things like this didn't happen .
40 years ago we had Bundy, Dahmer, BTK, etc walking around killing kids and women and storing their heads in freezers. 60 years ago it was legal to be openly racist to people who aren’t white and tell them to use a separate fountain. 80 years ago a certain country gassed millions of jews and Japan pillaged/mass raped several Asian countries. 200 years ago slavery was legal. 300 years ago our form of local capital punishment was tying a woman and drowning or burning them because someone said they were a witch.
I promise you there were no “good old days”. You were just young and look back at your childhood with rose colored glasses.
As a parent myself, this story has affected me on a deep level. I can’t fathom how you can let your child die in such an inhumane way. The parents have to have some mental issues themselves to just do absolutely nothing while your child dies slowly in your own house, walking by every day. It’s a very sad story. At least she’s no longer suffering anymore.
Their cloths must have smelled
Parents are demon possessed.
That's their defense. Or the defense they will propose. The parents 'mental' state is to blame for their obvious negligence.🙄
Pure evil I hope the judge is hard on these two demons. May the victim rest in power
Sounds like a cult to me
Yes
They're like 1st Baptists..They're probably just very unaware
Those two are sick
I'm just wondering if anyone the parents came into contact with ever thought they smelled? There's no way they didn't have that "sewer/rotting" odor coming from Lacey clinging to them if they lived in that house.
Yes i tink about that.a skum pee in my house and believe me all my clothes my hair stink for a week.i could go anywhere. I was smelling soo bad
A lady I nursed had her bra and tshirt anastamosed to her body as she had mental illness and didn’t shower and her husband was a farmer busy on the farm and couldn’t get her in the shower . After a few years he finally took her to ED where her clothes were surgically removed. We ended up with her in the nursing home. She was catatonic schizophrenic. Unfortunately this happens to ppl
This is horrific 😢
I was going to comment about schizophrenia wow your story.
Yes, it happens, but it also needs to be PREVENTED! As in, if parents, spouses, etc do not want to care for these loved ones, at least take them where they can be treated better!
He had the compassion to get help. He was alone. This woman had two complicit people making bag decisions.
anastamosed? ED? help..?
No excuses from her parents will ever be acceptqble. Beyond horrible n tragic. Rip Lacey
During the autopsy, they found fabric and foam from the couch in her stomach.
I hope and pray that she has found peace.
The parents basically killed her.
I can't even fathom this. Absolutely horrific.
So disgusting
I can't even fathom this. This is absolutely not Christian and is unbiblical. I pray for their souls that they may realize what they've done and repent.
organized religion causes people to lose their common sense.
What in the world does religion have to do with it?
@@gregorygrimm5540 to those of us who believe it is about there hearts and their relationship with God, and with this I can say that the relationship between these people and their savior is really messed up on their side..
@@marianparoo1544 Everything! for those of us who believe in Jesus Christ, these people claim to be followers? Please , this is not Christ-like, and they will have to answer... To those of you who don't believe, well that's sad for you and one day you will find all the answers, I pray you will know the truth before then.
@@hotsand4u I believe in Jesus as a good man who died for what he believed. Son of God? Nope.
When the inmates find out their crimes, life will become very difficult for them.
This is terrible to even think about. They didn’t love her at all. Sad she didn’t have anyone to even come check to see how she was doing but i’m sure parents just kept lying over and over . They deserve life in prison:
"They loved Lacy to death." Well yes. Yes they did.
RIP sweet angel this is a extreme spiritual crime
These people are monsters! How can you treat your own daughter like that. And whoever hell is supporting them ( The people at their church) need to wake the hell up and realize who you are supporting. Good people don't do what they did to their daughter.
So since she was a 16 year old child she was being tortured in that home and none of the church going friends questioned it?
I would hate being on the jury. Those pictures have to be horrifying.
Since they took a plea deal, will it ever come to that? The only thing now will be sentencing and I think just a judge will decide how long they get but I'm not positive.
No jury needed. They accepted responsibility.
@@kimberlycronen3998 Thank you, I thought so but wasn't 100% sure.
Won't be a jury trial, they pled guilty to lesser charges. Only thing coming is their sentencing date
I saw a few of them and they did blur Lacy’s face but holy crap when I say it’s horrible
Absolutely horrific and sickening
The fact that their friends from church are supporting them could mean they knew what was happening to the daughter and somehow condoned it. Horrible. How can a person support the abuser?
No, the people at church no doubt gave all their prayers and sympathy. All their attention....to the parents. I hope they now realize how evil these people. I'm sure they told the church they were completely martyred and spent ALL their time tending to her. I cannot picture them going to church and telling them "Feel bad for us, as she's rotting on the couch."
Because of their beliefs I'm afraid, as Christians they project evil onto people and situations, no doubt they believed their daughter has the devil inside her, and tried to get rid of it... They're quite bizzare in their designation of evil...😢😢
I don't think the church is a real church. It is more like a cult.
@@C-Here That's an awful lot of assumptions.
@@tryphenarose384
Nope, a factual knowledgeable observation - because I know many Christians... How many do you know??
Sickeningly sad ,poor lady just ignored and forgotten by the two people who should have loved her more than that .
My mother would do the same to me and my father would not say a word because he was bullied. This is not the norm but happens in different levels of brutality. My parents were "so called" good people.
WTF. Church goers? I’m speechless 😶. Behind many a door lurks horror.
They MURDERED her! This is absolutely disgusting how can anyone support these disgusting monsters!
Maybe this DA shouldn’t have offered them a manslaughter plea.
this is horrible. 😢
I don’t know how any parents could have “a defense” especially after what we saw on that couch alone.
If you never met a parent like this you couldnt understand...some parents dont know what 2 do so they just ignore the situation...they dont check on their kids, they just ignore the kid or kids...and the mental illness the kids have gets worse...
The church members need to see the photos of Lacey melted in to the couch. What fools.
Whoever wrote letters for these people need help themselves no excuse for what they did stupidity, ignorance and beyond ignoring a problem is why this happened. Horrific
Absolutely horrific!
The smell had to be horrific!!!
I just can't believe they didn't hospitalize her! She was probably getting government disability or something and had healthcare, right? Why couldn't those two talk to their preacher about how to handle their daughter? So many questions! 🤮
I was thinking the same. I want to know if they are receiving a disability money for her from the government and using that money for themselves.
These images are too graphic i could not look at it.
My husbands family just had a man that passed away who didn't talk to anyone. The mail kept piling up and the neighbors decided to call for a welfare check on him and he had been in his chair for over 4 months! I guess it was pretty bad
Evil
OMG that poor dear innocent girl.
@lilybond6485- She was 35 years old!!!
No excuse for this baby girls suffering. As a mother and father we’re to protect our children. To let your child literally decompose and starve to death is beyond unacceptable. Our children are always our babies no matter how old they get. They should keep that couch for the jury to see and especially how strong the smell of rotting flesh is. To truly see how horrific her suffering was, HELL on earth! Not buying any excuses they come up with.
We never know what people are doing behind closed doors. Face value means nothing, EVIL WITH NO SOUL.
Those parents are evil and anyone who says otherwise is full of it! Their daughter was eaten alive by maggots while she rotted in her own waste for years and they lived with this and looked at it everyday. Sick!
So no one has ever visited their home , be inside of that house and see Lacey?
Disgusted by these monsters get a plea deal. They allowed their own daughter to suffer and die, and did absolutely nothing
World has gone mad😢
Heartbreaking! Sweet Lacey rest in peace!
That's not love. May God rebuke you all for standing with evil!
There is something atrociously missing in a person that could let this happen, especially a disabled person thats already vulnerable. Just monstrous & dark hearted. 🥀
These two should rot in jail.
I don't know about you but that's not love and that's not taken care of I think that's neglect and disgusting
Why were they allowed to plea?
There is NO defense
Exactly, if I were their lawyer, I would make sure justice is served for Lacey by putting them behind bars, defense attorneys is a protocol but when your client is guilty, is guilty
So because they were church going, they suppose to get sympathy?
I'm a Christian and I don't understand it. If I had a son who committed murder I wouldn't plead for leniency. I would still love my son. I would write and visit and pray but he would have to pay his debt.
How can these "Christians" actually have the nerve to write letters saying what good people the parents are. Well everyone now knows they absolutely are not. And to ask for mercy? That's an insult to the daughter they said they loved.
Wt...?! Sick monsters!!! RIP to the girl.
that room is out in the open too, so bizzare, Who cares about their church or dating
These parents are gross!
😡😡😡They said; "We loved our daughter to death." #EVIL #NotChristians
They should have still been charged with murder. I don't get it.
Imo they got her check and forgot she existed.
I still do not understand what happened to this girl. What does "melted" in the sofa mean?
Think about how materials break down over time when subjected to stressors and how they dissolve in liquids. With that in mind, it means she sat on the sofa until her skin/body started breaking down, and the couch started breaking down. From the looks, she probably (obviously) deficated and urinated where she was, sitting in that is going to cause sores and all kinds of awful.
It's a horrific story.
How do you even start to comprehend any of this…. HOW did this happen??? WHY??? I can’t believe that not one church member cared enough to go and visit this girl. Perhaps someone tried and the parents deterred any visits. Which if that were the case that would have raised a flag to me.
Why not bring in a caregiver
These two are next level evil
RIP 🕊️ 🙏 ❤
They stopped caring for her when she became an adult, if not always. Smh. How the church members can get behind the parents on this is beyond me. I don't get it. They clearly neglected their daughter and let her die a horrible death without any love or compassion for her. I don't feel sorry for them, and I hope the judge throws the book at them.
Why didn't the doctor ask the police for a welfare check if he was worried about Lacey? He left her to die too. Shame on the parent's wonderful Christian church friends. Hypocrits!!!
It should be 40 years, no less!!
Just because someone goes to church make them a Christian.
Looks can be deceiving, but not in this particular case.
People are delusional and evil is real.