Mom "Finds" Daughter Dead, Doesn't Realize Cops Found Her Horrifying Secret

[@suitejodi]

I had depression and didn’t want to get out of bed. After 2 days my mom came in and dragged me out. No way in hell they’d let me sit around for 12 years.

[@Ming3484]

Exactly!!! It just goes to show the complete lack of love these so called parents had.

[@joystrawnhill]

​@@Ming3484it's obvious for people who love to see the lack of it...

[@lynseymacleod5598]

I know mine the same! I would if been dragged out,or the doctor would of been called! And they wouldn't be leaving tilI they had answers.

[@QueenAvacado]

She was paralyzed or couldn’t walk…

[@thecongenital3035]

My brother walked into our nephews room, nephew said he was depressed 2 weeks passed and my brother had enough. Walked in yelled at him to get farq out of bed and quit being lazy and pathetic, nephew got up and went to work. Hasn't been depressed since 😂😂😂😂

[@q5024]

Imagine walking around the house with your child rotting on the couch....the smell, the sight, all of it is mind blowing. Those parents was sick af

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

Why didn't she want to shower or go to the toilet?? That's what you can't get past. Were they going to push her in?

[@candykane4271]

Imagine the smell, that and that alone says these people are sickos

[@grainiac7824]

The coroner said it didn't appear they were actually living there

[@jacobcarrillo7896]

They didn't live there they just said that to sound a bit decent

[@LadyLontoc]

I would say they were not there much.. they prob came just occasionally.. no human could stand that kind of smell if the coroner could not... poor child... hard to even imagine a wild animal being treated like that...

[@JE4-1]

I’m sorry but blaming the non verbal, paralyzed young girl for her own neglect and death is sickening! Glad they will live out their years in prison.

[@delcrimetime]

I reckon they drugged her for afew years first.

[@bryanchaney2572]

And hopefully get some prison justice while they are in there!

[@animationmaster4458]

this only arouses anger in me nothing else but anger

[@animationmaster4458]

I'm sorry but to blame this on a mental disorder is just evil. they plotted this.

[@HillbillyYEEHAA]

I bet they were getting disability for her. Sick

[@AlaFrigginBama]

I worked as a home hospice RN for a while. Some of the cases I saw in that time were sadly similar to this. In one case a patient was stuck to his bed when I went in for his initial assessment/admission. When I rolled him over multiple cockroaches scattered from his bed. He also had maggots in multiple wounds, scabies and was horribly malnourished. But the family who was “caring for him” darn sure looked like they’d never missed a meal and they were quite angry for our involvement, as his benefit check that they’d been abusing would now actually have to go towards proper care for him and not towards funding their lifestyle. People can be so incredibly cruel to one another. It’s sad. I think that anyone receiving SS benefits for caring for a loved one should be required to have at minimum monthly check in’s by either home health or by a clinic appointment. That would cut down on a lot of abuse.

[@abelis644]

Retired Canadian RN here. That's just repulsive. What is wrong with people!

[@vern0018]

it would take at least 6months to be in that state of neglect? It's hard to understand why the patient's family won't even care.

[@Allantitan]

I agree on the forced monthly check in by some kind of medical professional it would definitely help in lowering the cases of abuse

[@pratimakunche2767]

That's why they advice not to give off ur money to kids while u r alive God forbid if we are bedridden we shud have enough money to either employ care takers or move into hospice That too where they care for sick people well At times these homes are also dirty

[@heidijohannes4271]

It's more than that. A person getting SSI for a disabled person that money is actually just payable to them. However the money is supposed to be to supply for the disabled person as a supplemental income

[@Nickmacpaddywhack]

The girl was found with couch foam and feces in her stomach. That means that her parents intentionally withheld food from her becasue she was obviously able to eat. They wouldn't feed her so she was forced to eat the couch and her own excrement until her body finally gave out. This is one of the most horrific ways to pass that i could ever imagine. These parents deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[@techguydilan]

"Parents?" More like monsters.

[@duckzilla6897]

Exactly. And they can't claim "locked in syndrome" when she was moving to eat the couch. If she was locked in that means they fed her the couch and rubbed feces on her.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Yes, Lacey was starving to get to the point of eating whatever's closest. Awful.

[@Flee-the-matrix]

Yes! She obviously was able to move and wanted to eat. They are horrible people

[@BS-ke7kq]

@@techguydilant😂 nqh c

[@lady_bexy]

I just heard the defence attorney's words to the press..I'm livid! 😡😡🤬 My 20 year old daughter has cerebral palsy and is deaf, among other diagnoses. I have to toilet her, shower her, and dress her. NO, this doesn't 'sometimes just happen'! My daughter is clean, fed, and taken into the community for events. I could never starve her or let her sit in her own filth. Am I often frustrated? Yes. Am I often exhausted? Yes. But not on my worst day could I do this to an animal, let alone my flesh and blood. That was a vile, disgusting, and ludicrous statement to make. I'm so glad these 'people' are in prison. That attorney should have kept his mouth shut rather than speaking so off-handedly about this kind of treatment. What a POS.

[@talapeanutbutter4250]

God Bless all you do for your daughter. I took care of my father who had Alzheimer’s for the last month of his life. It was so much work and you’ve taken care of your child her entire life.

[@sherimorgan7107]

Life can be hard, but as parents it's our responsibility to care for our children and these people didn't care for their daughter at all! They did more for "grandma" than their own child. I think there's a special place down below for people like this and I think there's a special place above in heaven for good parents of our Angels that can't do for themselves. So sad she was born into such a family, her life could have been so much better.

[@libertyone5853]

God bless you and your family!

[@Ourladyrules]

i am with you mother 💯🙏💪

[@NoCoffeeForYou]

I feel you mama. My son is 8 with several conditions AMC scoliosis and autism also can’t eat due to a delayed swallow So PEG feed…. Exhausted is a familiar word… we have a full lifetime to go yet… proud of you!!!

[@izzyha6173]

I used to do inhome care as a job. I had a client that was nonverbal, didnt walk, and had a lot of other issues. At one point they started refusing any type of food or water. We tried everything fruits and all their favorites. They just wouldnt ingest anything. We waited one night. The next morning when they wouldnt ingest anything still we rushed them to hospital. We never fully found out why they all of a sudden refused all food and drink. But we figured out how to get them the care they needed. Thats what you do. Not just let them rot.

[@chayasorabella4581]

Exactly! She needed responsible, caring, loving adults around her. This is so tragic 😢

[@SharonDavenport-v7j]

Thank You For Saying That !

[@lovelylamb6910]

Why did they not hire someone to look after her?? They could clearly afford it. They should have been sentenced for second degree

[@desert_moon]

Right? Even if they refuse or get aggressive with you when they refuse. (as some do), you get them help. No excuse.

[@maryanntime9755]

How in the world can the parent do these things😢

[@freckles8119]

Poor girl! She had such a beautiful smile.

[@skyegroome223]

She wasn't a girl she was a woman. 31 years old, they made her spend her entire 20s on that couch. Horrible people.

[@charmainestampley5321]

She looked beautiful and healthy 😢

[@Miss_Meee]

'The Fletchers never intended to harm their daughter'. Sir, they never intended to HELP her either. How do you walk past your child like that EVERY day and NOT seek medical help??

[@donnahilton471]

She should have qualified for In Home Support Services.

[@Khaegch-favh]

Yep. Parents like that always have the same excuses as 6 year-old when they get caught going or not going something."Well we didn't INTEND for it to happen???!!!" Like we're all supposed to say "Oh, ok. Everything is fine than!" 🤡

[@bondeappetite703]

Exactly. It’s unthinkable to leave her like that.

[@catstac2542]

That's why the coroner wrote that they probably didn't even live in that house, because the stench alone was impossible to live with. They also traveled.

[@claudiaarjangi4914]

How can they say that PURPOSELY KNOWINGLY leaving her to suffer, is not intending her to suffer ? Intention goes to motivations. They were motivated to watch her suffer. So it WAS intended.

[@reneehouser2925]

Lacey would have been painfully sick with E-coli infections and poisoning, too. Shutting down kidney, bladder, etc and extremely painful. Poor soul. The total lack of pain management, gynecology, any hygiene. Just pure evil. These people are tangible evidence of the evil that walks among us 🫤

[@kimtillman5683]

Since the mother claimed she slept on the couch w/her daughter then they should put that couch in her cell and make her sleep on it …that would be a small piece of justice.

[@sheylaabarca9754]

🎯💯💯💯🔨

[@karenbradley4805]

Totally agree!!!!!!

[@LeisaAnderson-e1v]

An eye for an eye 😢😢

[@renb6133]

Completely agree. She didn’t go anywhere near that couch, let alone sleep on it. As a mum of an ASD teen, this case sickens me! 😢

[@amyludwig8685]

This is brilliant!!!! I agree!! 💯

[@inmategray6238]

So Fletcher's family cries and mourns in court, but didn't shed a single tear for the amount of torture their family member went through... "people of good faith"

[@marilynwillett804]

Don't even attempt to discredit people of good faith.

[@BelovedOfGod5]

​@marilynwillett804 I agree with you, that these parents were not people of good faith nor Christian which means to be Christ like. They were religious which is usually just eye service and man pleasing. They had a whole community of friends and family and didn't ask them for help for their daughter. They didn't love her or show her compassion

[@marykacollins9191]

Good Christians those parents aren't they Baptist Church what God will forgive them you got to be joking

[@avery2041]

How do you just ignore your child actively dying/decomposing in your living room??!!

[@theneontiger5280]

Valid

[@tinawindham6958]

Go on vacation

[@lindajones4478]

I wonder if she was getting disable person checks.

[@truegemrn]

Decomposing while alive. How sick.

[@susankelly3136]

Crazy sadistic people 😡😡

[@meimei1919]

Sick, sick, sick couple. Let alone parents! As I read this I’m crying for her. Poor baby, you’re in a good place now.

[@jb6712]

Boohooing for someone you never knew isn't at all productive, and is rather pointless. It only says to everyone else, "Hey, look at ME! I'M "crying" for you, so I'M the "good" person here!"

[@Chipgirl24]

Don't agree. This case has to b one of the worst, how could u not b upset that another human was treated like this?

[@chayasorabella4581]

"deceased up to 48 hours prior" shows how much she was checked on

[@Miss_Meee]

But they loved her SO much. How do you NOT notice a dead girl on the couch in your LIVING ROOM??

[@dinimueter9961]

@@Miss_Meeeprobably because she smelled like she was dead for years😔

[@renb6133]

@@Miss_MeeeOh, they “loved her to death” according to their defence attorney. How can he live with himself? Smdh.

[@jb6712]

It only shows that forensics is not an exact science, as any pathologist would tell you. And it shows that you know nothing at all in that regard, but are pretending to know "something" to make yourself seem credible.

[@chayasorabella4581]

@@jb6712 seem credible? it was a statement, i guess an uneducated one but i wasn't claiming to know anything.

[@Emy53]

These parents are both deranged and need to be imprisoned for LIFE.

[@Miss_Sheep...]

They neglected her, in the worst ways possible...

[@Bible5771]

They hired someone to care for the mom so they knew better. They should have given their daughter the same care. The parents absolutely knew better. No excuses.

[@thedarkestkinghtstar]

How can they claim they "did the best they could" when they literally hired help and had cameras for Lacey's grandma?

[@mindymorgan8479]

Exactly!

[@JuanitaGalipo]

I believe that it was abuse to the maximum. No one should go through that. Lacey now you are really loved in heaven. I can't hold my tears. This is unbelievable cruel. Poor little angel.

[@jb6712]

She's merely dead, not in heaven. No human (nor animals!!) has ever gone to heaven, and never will!!

[@Chipgirl24]

Well, I don't think anyone really knows for sure

[@RafeekKaramat]

There’s no way she slept on that couch with her daughter 🤢

[@joystrawnhill]

That's what I thought

[@ritakennedy3138]

@RafeekKaramat That would be absolutely impossible!

[@singmysong1167]

same thoughts here...not even sitting next to her, with the smells and active live maggots crawling towards you!....

[@upsidedowngrief]

Maybe she did..... 15 years ago.

[@jacquipope6222]

Not a chance she went near that sofa! That poor girl. 😢

[@sammy91093]

If she was paralyzed and could only communicate with eye movements, there’s no reason you couldn’t have physically taken her to the hospital or doctor or something. She obviously couldn’t be physically resistive

[@pinkfreud62]

Or have home health care come in or a social worker to look into her safety.

[@sarahrheaume2261]

The parents saying that they "loved her to death" takes on a whole new meaning..

[@charmainestampley5321]

Exactly 😢

[@abelis644]

And he said it twice. Freudian slip.

[@susanwhetstine1603]

Bullsh*t excuses from the parents. These people are monsters.

[@RenetaDodge-zg1kx]

The parents are monsters ,there's no excuse for this kind of neglect.

[@colleenhoughton2547]

The patents should be in Jail!!! I hope they are there!!

[@Ourladyrules]

and the parents had money! they werent poor, they were able to post bail of $300,000.00 each!

[@k29401]

Neighbors "didn't know" she lived there. I wonder how many families have done something like this, and never alerted officials...

[@GingerNinja1]

Leaving your child in those conditions & her stomach full of the sofa & feces is NOT love. It's pure evil & they will answer to their maker when the time comes.

[@uzmaahmed.catmoon]

Without a shadow of a doubt!

[@jb6712]

Well, so will you answer to Christ when the time comes---every one of us will, and very, very few will find it a comfortable, pleasant experience!

[@Chipgirl24]

Why didn't they take her to the hospital, or put her in an institution or hone? Guess they didn't want to spend $

[@l-b284]

not according to their baptist minister and friends...the lord is on their side

[@Laurencita]

So powerful for the relative with advanced dementia to ask about Lacey

[@onionbubs386]

They claim she had locked in syndrome but also that she would openly refuse to comply? How is that supposed to make sense to anyone? Also, Asperger's (which isn't a diagnosis anymore, it's just autism) is on the high functioning, low needs end of the spectrum. You can't call it both severe autism and Asperger's, that's contradictory. I hope they get everything they deserve.

[@dinimueter9961]

High functioning isn‘t a term that should be used anymore (ableistic). „Lower support needs“ is enough as a description.

[@heartsmyfaceforever8140]

Autism functionality isn’t linear. I have what would have been considered Asperger’s in the past. Sometimes I can fit into society and sometimes I cannot even speak and I melt down.

[@psychonauty2020]

she was eating, she ate the couch!! she fed herself and was able to eat.

[@Anweny]

I was diagnosed with aspergers and am for the most part a normally functioning woman. I even got a college degree. I do also have severe social anxiety but for the most part strangers would just think I’m shy. I do have mental breakdowns when all the stimuli get too much and will collapse into myself and become non responsive but that will not last more that a couple hours at most so I can’t imagine aspergers with social anxiety would cause something severe like this. It was definitely the parents, not the poor girl.

[@catstac2542]

People obviously don't understand what locked-in syndrome is either. That's a state where you're completely paralyzed and for the outside world seem to be in a coma, there is no contact with you except your eye movement when some other person lifts up your eyelids, because even that you can't do yourself. You need to be fed through an IV as your body has no other way to get food inside. You don't eat furcking cheetos unless they're liquidated and put inside your vains. This girl obviously never suffered from the aforementioned syndrome. She was able to move her hands and eat, that is how she ate foam from the sofa and her own faeces, which is also the best proof that she desperatly wanted to live unless she was forc e-fed. Edit: I would opt for the chair for her "parents".

[@thetruecrimeconnoisseur]

Look at the eyes of the "mother"! That's a demon, not a human.

[@loriw2661]

I couldn’t be a DA. There’s no way I could morally justify defending people like this. Idc that “everyone deserves a defense”. This is INDEFENSIBLE.

[@chuck4714]

The da is the prosecutor... You mean the public defender?

[@ntfoperative9432]

But the thing is, they need a good defense, because if they get a bad defense they can just apply for a mistrial. They need to be defended so that when they get prosecuted, they can’t claim that the defense sabotaged them

[@lvoryRose]

Maybe they meant Defense Attorney?​@@chuck4714

[@Karmajo2024]

@@chuck4714 I think they prolly mean Defense Attorney

[@thatchick1205]

You don’t abbreviate the defense as DA. That is the prosecutor, which stands for district attorney.

[@MeadTheValkyrie]

So, the parents claim she had “locked in syndrome” yet they expected her to sit up, eat and get on the toilet? Locked in syndrome means you canNOT move ANY part of your body EXCEPT your EYES!!!

[@19righty94]

As a retired CNA and MA and disabled individual, I am FLOORED that the victims' parents were able to avoid the second degree murder charges. The victim's parents let this happen to her on purpose for whatever reason. Personally, I have seen many adult children feel burdened and resentful because they were forced to take on the position of caretaker for their elderly parents. I've also seen many parents and guardians feel the same way due to being forced to care for their adult child. It's not easy caring for long-term and hospice patients. It's mentally taxing and it's okay to not be handling the care taker role well. What's not okay, is avoiding seeking out professional help and assistance in caring for a disabled and/or injured family member. There are resources out there to avoid this specific outcome. Granted this is horrific nightmare of an example. It breaks my heart thinking about how much she was suffering. Her parents set her up in a situation where they left her to suffer a gruesome torturous and long stretched out death. They are evil 💯

[@basbleupeaunoire]

money and connections

[@captainchaos52]

Couldn't they just give her to the state of LA??

[@basbleupeaunoire]

@@captainchaos52 They could have had her institutionalized.

[@clouise9825]

Out of all the horrific crimes this has to be the most disturbing. My heart goes out to Lacy, its very painful to hear the details. I think the coroner needed counciling, thank goodness for him he helped bring justice for her.

[@gwen08g]

Can you even fathom how much pain that young woman was in? Oh it hurts my heart. 😢

[@Chipgirl24]

Can't even go there,

[@lady_bexy]

Just because you attend church, it doesn't make you a good person. A lot of horrific crimes have been committed in the name of church and religion. Evil can be found anywhere, and it was surely found here. Putting a t-shirt on her was likely an attempt to make it look like there was care and attention being paid to the young lady. This was just unfathomably horrific. As a parent, I can not understand how anyone can do these awful things to their kids.

[@Chipgirl24]

I'm so tired of people claiming to b religious or Christian and committing these foul deeds. Certain denominations seem to think it's ok... Lori Valliw, ruby Franke etc etc. What's wrong with this world? Gets worse everyday

[@Gigi52162]

Also true , just because one is a a believer doesn't mean they are a messed up parent

[@amethystdawn9476]

My teenage daughter has Down syndrome and autism. Our other daughter died as an infant. This just makes me more worried for my daughter. She gets a stuffy nose, I bring her to the doctor, as she has tiny nasal passages and had pneumonia once without even a cough. Thank God I brought her in!

[@karenglenn6707]

My beautiful older brother David was born with Down Syndrome in Melbourne Australia in 1958 and was my parents first child. My mum was 21 and dad was 23. He was such a much loved member of our family, loving and so affectionate. He died just before his 10th birthday in July 1968 from pneumonia. My parents had been told that it was unlikely that he would live beyond the age of 12 and he didn’t even make that. My love to you and your gorgeous girl. My brother was such a love and a cuddler. It was later discovered that it was hereditary so us 3 girls all had genetic testing, I was a carrier as was another sister but my youngest sister is not so the risk ends for her and her children. My adult son could also be a carrier but doesn’t want children so hasn’t been tested.

[@marilynwillett804]

​@@karenglenn6707 I know of a girl, young lady now with Downs Syndrome. Her young parents always treated her exactly like their other 2 kids. In H.S. she'd go out with her [non D S ] friends for pizza or to the movies, clothes shopping. Even was asked to prom. Later she went on to college. I don't think she is the cuddly type but always kept her nice little figure, likes sports and camping. She has a sense of humor and loves Jesus.

[@shebrewsherri1008]

How could they do such a horrible thing to anyone much less their own child?

[@thegrimlooper]

This case is so heartbreaking. They probably didn't want to pay for her care, or have to tell people that she has "problems" so they made her pay with her life. She suffered for AT LEAST 12 years. Probably more than suffered. My grandma had an horrible bed sore so bad from neglect in the hospital that she passed away after only 1 month. I cant imagine 10+ years with no meds or care or anything in that condition

[@danarzechula3769]

Then I guess you will be voting for healthcare for all like other civilised countries

[@marilynwillett804]

@@danarzechula3769 AMERICA HAS FREE HEALTHCARE FOR LOW INCOME PEOPLE, we are far far more civil than your countries.

[@sparklight0964]

@@danarzechula3769your sick trying to make her death political

[@barbaraberna291]

This is so awful. How can you be so evil and not seek help for their daughter.

[@angelaperkins3555]

This happened in our town but the girl was a teenager with cystic fibrosis. Her parents practically fed her to death and when the medics went in they had the same awful smell and saw maggots living in her bed sores. It was during COVID so the school had no idea what was happening. The mother was a carer professionally and then came home and ignored her own child. When a child is incapable of moving it is absolutely your responsibility to protect and care for them

[@mist9965]

How was she fed to death,？

[@angelaperkins3555]

@ Her parents just kept feeding her junk and she couldn’t move so her heart gave out

[@lnmemoryofjohnmordaunt7386]

​@@mist9965 kaylea titford?

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

@@angelaperkins3555 where, in this whole video did you hear that? Nowhere. You made it up.

[@FreebornLivingWoman]

She is Talking about another family in Wales.​@@ForceFreeTrainergirl06

[@Suggapple]

Oh and lock up their attorney too. This is crazy.

[@samantha953]

Their attorney is legally required to represent them. A better defense would have been they were over their heads and it just spiraled. The defense he went with probably helped keep the jury from having any sympathy for them that or it’s the defense they insisted on.

[@Marie.king06]

I'd say they were getting a disability check for her every month

[@silentmoon123]

And they didn’t want to pay for hospital bills to get her help

[@plasticdevil3]

Disability is hella hard to get and some cases not even worth the trouble. It would also require periodic checks with medical professionals to prevent fraud. If the parents had tried to apply for disability on Lacey's behalf, medical professionals would be required to see her and the neglect would have been spotted and reported.

[@firelady118]

​@@plasticdevil3 no, no they don't. I live with my disabled mother and help take care of her. She's been on disability for year's, they have NEVER come to "check up on her". All they do is send paperwork to refile if necessary and send or deposit your monthly payment. As far as when you apply they send you to one of their doctors just to verify the disability but that's it. They do not check up on them after they're approved. The only time I've ever seen any thing like that is when you file an insurance claim for like injuries or something but they don't believe it so they'll keep an eye on you to see if your doing something you shouldn't be.

[@michelleholmes7582]

​@@plasticdevil3This is not always the case. I am on disability because a car accident resulted in a spinal cord injury. I have been receiving disability since 2010. I haven't had to be seen by a physician specifically for disability in years. I periodically, every few years, get a form in the mail that I have to fill out and sign just basically saying everything is still the same, and nothing has changed as far as my injury and inability to work.

[@cyndisworld42]

Of course

[@RonnieSutton-t7m]

I feel so sorry and full of respect for the poor guy who had to take the body to the morg. How will he ever forget

[@Chipgirl24]

OMG!!! He'll never b the same again poor guy. I couldn't have done that

[@V10L1N_EAT3R]

12 YEARS?! death sentence.

[@brucelindahl9814]

Is that the sentence the couple got? Cuz they deserve old sparky.

[@jennawebb4225]

​@@brucelindahl9814 no, it's been how long Lacy Fletcher was sitting there.

[@brucelindahl9814]

@jennawebb4225 sorry, just noticed whilst listening to the video more. Apparently I have old man brain.

[@rachelrazz90]

These two deserve the deepest, darkest pit of turmoil

[@TheMOX125]

Those maggots probably kept her body alive from the septic infection of the decubitus ulcerations. An evil nightmare those parents’ behavior over the years against their daughter.

[@Chipgirl24]

Good lord, so awful, parents r heinous

[@Chipgirl24]

This was horrendous and vile. Those parents need to b treated like their daughter. Who could ever b this cruel!

[@premiertrainingFL]

These pathetic excuses for humans calling themselves good Christians is just epic levels of insanity and delusion

[@rebeccawhetzel6282]

A lot 'Christians' are somewhat like this. They believe they'll be excused for their behavior in heaven by going to church every Sunday.

[@singmysong1167]

That's what I thought...that pastor tarnishing the holy name of Jesus, bc Jesus loves children so much AND so much so that He declared that heaven was created specifically for the precious children..

[@aurora6920]

Good and bad people have faith.

[@Chipgirl24]

I have faith the parents will pay for this somehow

[@marilynwillett804]

@@singmysong1167 Heaven was created for the angels then for all who turn to His Son, Jesus is THE ONLY WAY.

[@roseanneelliott3817]

RIP Lacey 🙏 So heartbreaking. Her parents are monsters.

[@hsk2909]

I dunno but leaving your daughter to melt in to a couch in her own fecal matter isn't exactly what i identify as love.

[@Andrea-l1o1n]

Nor is it doing their best

[@tlanxe682]

What is this emoji? How did you get it?

[@casitube22]

Awe I like that emoji or whatever it’s called,how did you do that? Is it only available on a computer/laptop

[@MartenKrueger-sx4me]

Or Christian....

[@weemaggie]

​@MartenKrueger-sx4me l just knew they would be religious...even before we were told they were Baptists....religious people creep me out !

[@gabrielwatson7721]

"They loved their daughter to DEATH." Oh, how I LOATH that expression. It's pretty clear they HATED her to DEATH. 🤬

[@PhoenixMcGinnis]

If my kid was that messed up, she would be in an institution, not a sofa.

[@Jay-n262]

Some institutions are horrible but not as horrible as this.

[@Edelwiess1066]

She Wasn't that messed up in the beginning!! THEY Literally neglected her to DEATH. What part of that are people not understanding? There is not rational explanation for what happened here. Sick sick sick people

[@sarahholland2600]

They sought medical advice when she started refusing to leave the couch. The advice was she needed to be in a facility. They just ignored that, didnt seek daily carers to help with feeding & bathing & left her to rot.

[@H.Liddell]

But then they wouldn't get her benefits check every month.

[@sarahholland2600]

@@Edelwiess1066 I agree. If she was obstructive re personal care, then get in daily carers to feed & bathe her. Many, many people do this , rather than go with moving them into a facility.

[@cherylm9770]

They didn't want to Hospitalize Lacey because they would Lose her Disability Check and Caregiver Payments for taking care of their daughter ! No other Logical Reason than GREED ! SHAMEFUL SICK PPL

[@valleriarios8672]

Awful parents. No they aren't even parents because no sane parents would do this.

[@feferosette]

They know they didn't care about their daughter at all. Heartless parents.

[@caseygood7761]

Im from Slaughter Louisiana. Lived on Rush St. Till I was 16 still own the property on Rush St. I moved to Pennsylvania in 2018 and moved my 87yr old grandpa with me in 2021. When I saw this, I was horrified this had happened. I played baseball with Lacy. But we were never close friends. I'm so so sorry this happened to you Lacy! Slaughter Louisiana is a great place to live! These people are disgusting and should have life in prison!

[@ritakennedy3138]

Can anyone imagine the shocking pain she would have gone through, without even an aspirin to help.

[@sarahsilverlight2064]

The parents did NOT live there. If they did, their everyday clothes would have reeked with stench, as I'm sure the G-d- awful smell permeated everything in the house 😡. Surprised no one thought of that. I mean, if you chain smoke, all of your clothes reek of tobacco, whether you are wearing them or they are in the closet, so logically their everyday clothes would reek of the stench in the house. Poor, poor girl 💔

[@ritakennedy3138]

@sarahsilverlight2064 They SURE didn't! That stench would have gone straight through their clothes, their hair, their shoes - absolutely EVERYTHING!!!

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Exactly this. When a package was accidentally delivered to our neighbors who smoke, the sleeping bag inside -- inside a plastic bag, in a box, only at that house for one day -- smelled so smokey it took two runs through the washer, with extra soap, to get it out.

[@Chipgirl24]

Right thinking the same thing

[@jenniferdunn2837]

I was going to say the exact same thing. No way they lived with her because they would have stunk so bad that their co-workers or anyone else in their vicinity would have complained about their stench!

[@kimmykimmycocopop1394]

My thought as well

[@MissPerriwinkle]

throw away the key to their prison cells....

[@opheliamunroe1110]

The fact that this was initially dismissed due to shoddy paperwork is extremely upsetting to me. Because this WAS murder. I believe the evidence that they didn't just casually neglect her is in the fact that she got appropriate care for her mother but not her autistic daughter. As someone who has experienced some of these symptoms - particularly issues with being nonverbal and struggling with food and executive dysfunction - and been aboosed for having them at all....these people likely resented her for her diagnosis. That they had an adult child they were still expected to care for even in their old age. Which is a huge problem in a culture where people encourage folks to have kids so someone will take care of them when they're too old to take care of themselves. Because that is not a guarantee that any of us get. When you bring life into this world you're responsible for them for as long as they need you. So if your child is born with disabilities...you still have to love and care for them their entire life. You have to be ready for health complications and conflict. The fact that people are still trying to use the defense that caretakers are under a lot of stress is disgusting. It was never okay to frame taking the lives of disabled children as being understandable. Or taking the lives of ANY disabled people regardless of age. I remember listening to my grandmother showing sympathy for a woman who drowned her autistic child in a local river and being absolutely terrified. Because I was legitimately afraid my own mother would escalate and just....not stop beating me until I stopped moving. Because we had a rule about not defending yourself - to avoid having defensive wounds - and putting your arms up or falling to the ground to curl up made it much worse. At one point I was hit until I passed out and woke up with my sister sobbing on the phone with the police while our mother was outside smoking like she'd just had the best lay of her life or something. I remember asking if my sister was okay because I had no idea what she had been through while I was out. This was all because we were struggling to clean our room to her standards. The police did show up but didn't believe I had been beaten unconscious even though my sister later told me that she did tell them I wasn't moving on the phone. But because I have dark skin and she used a wide paddle I really didn't have any bruises on display yet and they didn't consider the knots and welts to be aboos. They told us not to call just because we were being disciplined again because they had real crime to deal with. And then they left and the house phone was moved into our mother's room. And I was listening to my entire family discuss how valid and understandable it was that parents were just.... taking their autistic children's lives for the sole reason of...not wanting to take care of them. These people could have gotten her an aide. They knew she needed one and if her care was so taxing they should have paid for their daughters care and taken care of the parents directly. This was murder, pure and cruel. The neglect was obviously malicious. They lied about how often they were even in the house with her. As someone they claimed to be paralyzed that is legally under their care.

[@GermanGirl02]

I am so sorry you had to go thru this ❤ your sister is an angel! I wish you all well in life ❤

[@akirereluem609]

💔💝💗💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💖🤗

[@kmarch6630]

Nobody needs a book.

[@opheliamunroe1110]

@kmarch6630 Nobody is forcing you to read it either. 😐

[@danarzechula3769]

You have a lot of opinions how much experience? I am facing poverty as a senior from making sure my disabled child has medical care and a quality of life. Universal healthcare would make our jobs easier if you want to help vote for that.

[@ElusvOptmst1]

Poor Lacey. The parents are monsters. I hope the parents rot in prison. RIP Lacey.

[@adelejones5059]

RIP beautiful Lacey, I hope you haunt them for the rest of their lives.

[@Chipgirl24]

Yes! Maybe her ghost will haunt them

[@KittyLyons8]

I can’t imagine what was going through that poor girls head. Just heartbreaking 💔

[@leejtam0914]

they went away on a vacation with no care for their disabled child. total sociopaths

[@Chipgirl24]

Like the case of the woman that left her 18 month baby alone in a crib 10 days When she went on vacay

[@FreebornLivingWoman]

I think you mean psychopaths

[@karmaclanton5544]

This is cruel, torture, these people are disgusting.😢

[@rosesmith6925]

Can you even IMAGINE if a nursing home did this!! I've worked in a nursing home for 27 years and this is unbearable to hear much less see 😢

[@PettyJellyfish]

This is just sickening...I deal with social anxiety. It gets so bad that I can't come out the house sometimes longest was nearly a year but I've always had people that would check up on me. These parents neglected their daughter so badly she fused with the couch, i refuse to believe they lived in that house with that scent and seeing her like this NO WAY. They have no heart...

[@Nameless-lk8ld]

God bless the medical examiner. Poor Lacey

[@RayvenLunaNite]

I dunno, this just seems to me like they hid their daughter because of her mental difficulties, and letting her just "fade away" was their ticket out of a child who was in need. They probably saw her as defective, expensive, and a hassle to care for. Think of their age and the time they were raised in. Who knows what values their parents raised them with. One thing is clear, though. They didn't love her.

[@kelleylewis654]

I agree with what you said, until the part about "the time they grew up in". Idk what you're thinking. There was no time within the last 70 years when it was ok to think a child was worthless if damaged. This is the fault of the parents and their thinking, but not in any way "the time they get up in".

[@bonniesimpson1636]

This. 💯

[@thomaskeiper4534]

Yes, 20 years of sentence was not reasonable. These parents should have received LIFE IN PRISON.

[@Chipgirl24]

And they could get out early

[@nivision]

I heard this case a while back and it's haunted me ever since. thank you for giving me the legal outcome on it. with how horribly she must have suffered, and that they were taking care of her grandmother adequately, they should be in prison for the rest of their lives full stop.

[@Chipgirl24]

Heard this case too. Never forgot it. So disturbing someone could do this

[@buzzsmith4675]

I can't imagine all that woman went through. Shame on her parents! They need to be locked up. There is no excuse.

[@gloriachristensen92]

20 years was never a just sentence for what they did to their daughter! I don't care that they were in their 60's!! 40 years should have been the sentence, nothing less! How anyone can vouch for these two scumbags is beyond me!!🤬😪

[@lauriethomas3133]

That attorney is sick too if he believes what he said.

[@karidennis6154]

Their story makes no sense. They claim she had locked in syndrome, whereby she could only move her eyes. They also claim she refused to get help and became upset at the thought of leaving the couch. How could she stop them from getting her help if she couldn’t move?

[@arianashaundi4632]

Right

[@LongHairCarolyn]

It’s impossible for her to have had locked in syndrome. You need medical assistance to survive a day with it

[@l-b284]

it's interesting, too, that they would look up and even know about it, to use it as an excuse. There would be no reason for that diagnosis to just come up in conversation at her earlier therapy sessions

[@alabaster193]

They're despicable to even try to blame her.

[@Chipgirl24]

Right, victim blaming

[@nycapplesJH]

There are no words to describe this better than EVIL

[@pattywaters4269]

Horrible people should not have children. May she rest in peace. 🙏🏻♥️🕊

[@KagomeYasha023]

I’d rather a quick unaliving than rotting into a couch for 12 f#%*ing years,,,that is so cruel to do to any living being!!! Disgust.

[@janicebeare8127]

Every time I hear homeschooled alarm bells go off. This story is heart wrenching

[@Gigi52162]

I homeschooled 6 children and assisted 3 eldest grandchildren. They were in Awana, 4 H, music and art programs. We had many friends for them at parties and church. Homeschool is not the problem, parents are.

[@batuyu988]

the mother gives me a demonic vibe

[@giovanna722]

Yes, a hard, too - bright smile. The husband seems more like a younger brother or son.

[@MsAmique]

Her eyes are chilling.

[@rebeccawhetzel6282]

​@giovanna722 I thought he was way younger than her, .too

[@anna.luv3]

she looks like a bright sunshine with darkness in her.

[@JM-dq9uc]

My son has ADHD and autism, not severe. Sometimes I want to pull my hair out, but I'm always there for him

[@elexis3728]

I just happened to live a few Parishes away from this family in Louisiana. I do not know them but I definitely remember hearing about this when it happened. I had a car accident when I was 19 and was paralyzed from my spinal cord getting damaged. As hard as that was I was still always thankful that it was only physical. It’s unimaginable what this girl went through!

[@cygnusrays]

The level of inhumanity has me questioning her original diagnosis. I'd like to hear from school friends, their families, school teachers, hobby tutors etc etc.. Seems to me in my observations as a typical caring human being, that there's a much darker story, the kind we know happens everyday somewhere, in tiny towns and big cities, secluded properties, city apartment blocks, churches, tunnels.. I'm pretty sure it's not just me, something about Lacy's parents makes me sick to the bottom of my stomach.

[@theronstar]

Louisiana should have a law named after Lacey Fletcher: this law would punish the parents/caretakers, regardless of disability, of the passing of the individual in their care. The punishment would be the rest of their lives behind bars.

[@soapdood2085]

That is so incredibly vague and covers situations that aren’t morally reprehensible. As you worded it, you’re suggesting we jail people who take care of people who pass from natural causes even.

[@sweetserver017]

There’s already national laws, disabilities like this makes her a vulnerable adult therefore this is abuse / neglect of a venerable adult which would be a crime

[@Atlantiquasa]

I'm from just south of there, and I agree. I live in Florida now, and Maya's Law had become reality when horrible domestic circumstances at her home involving a maintenance technician resulted in her death.

[@4ever9zxyme]

Like with Eugenia cooney. Who seems to still be in her mothers care, she also doesn’t seem to care about her daughter’s condition and ignores/downplays the health of Eugenia

[@danarzechula3769]

Or we could have universal healthcare like other civilised countries

[@Jeaniebean53]

Let me guess. They wanted her gov’t money. If they put her into an institution, they’d lose that money.

[@ievagulbe3226]

So these idiots claim she “refused” to leave the couch because of her Asperger’s, but then say that she didn’t switch positions because of locked in syndrome… those statements literally contradict each other. How can she refuse to move if she’s paralyzed???

[@psychonauty2020]

how can she eat the couch if she's paralyzed, unless the mum was feeding the couch to her???

[@rebeccawhetzel6282]

​@@psychonauty2020 Makes you wonder.

[@bobbeezel2593]

Now we have cops arresting a woman because her ten year old son walked half a mile to a local convenience store? Where were these “child protective services” when this poor girl was rotting away?

[@KristianKumpula]

25:38 Asserting that they were strongly religious only makes them more suspicious

[@H.Liddell]

100%!

[@rebeccawhetzel6282]

Yep!

[@mirandaryan3362]

the more religious, the higher chance for bizarre choices IMHO based on my life experience.😊

[@danarzechula3769]

Sadly true

[@danarzechula3769]

​@@Mirrojreligious does not mean spiritual

[@Annderdoll]

How did she become immobile enough to be at their mercy in the first place? Asperger's is NOT severe autism, it is MILD autism. She was clearly functional at one time.

[@TheUnderCoverMother2020]

They said locked in syndrome

[@kimberlydavis4898]

Absolutely disgusting, jail time should be 40 years, not 20 years suspended 😮

[@Chipgirl24]

Life in prison!

[@masuahkokro8957]

The audacity of their lawyer to even represent them. Those people are pure evil

[@TJMalana]

Well he has to eat. Its his job whether or not he believes them or not. What do you expect?😐

[@haM.EGG.ANd.cheese]

Does this give anybody else Eugenia Cooney vibes? She never leaves that pink couch and her parents don't seem to care enough to do anything about it.

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

EXACTAMUNDO!!!

[@kmarch6630]

There are tons of pictures of her out and about, not on the couch.

[@vivdoolan6846]

I checked in on her the other day and I havent seen any new posts for months...... she was very close to death. Yes it does have similarities.

[@rlutker1]

That smell would have been in fibers of their clothes and would have smells which leads me to think they were not staying there.

[@atcharam4]

They might have lived upstairs .

[@jasperz3135]

Disregarding anything else about their immediate statements and how awful the treatment of her was - did they not understand that they immediately admitted to guilt, to a complete and under refusal to actually, truly try to take care of their daughter when they kept saying that she 'refused?' She didn't refuse anything if she has locked-in syndrome. Nobody would want to live in that situation, supposed familiarity or not.

[@ritakennedy3138]

They said she didn't have Locked-In Syndrome.

[@jasperz3135]

@@ritakennedy3138 I was talking about the story that the parents were trying to spin about her condition and how, even if that HAD been what was happening with her, they were still blatantly admitting to their own guilt and overwhelming negligence. I wasn't talking about what was actually found to be the case.

[@eloramorrissette8704]

The text the caregiver sent to Sheila fletcher, “looks like the cameras were at the wrong house.” That’s amazing

[@sakuurae]

how do they live so casually in their house with such a horrible sight and scent..

[@KarinaArklie]

This is the worst case of child cruelty I've ever heard in my life, this video disgusts me, and sickens me to the core. These monsters should suffer the consequences, and spend the rest of their life in prison. Never heard anything like this in my life. 😮😮. Poor sweet angel. ❤❤

[@kingjulien1921]

the question „who did something to her?“ is wrong. Nobody did anything to/for her, that’s the problem.