woman told relative, dying on floor, to "shut up".

[Liberal_in_LA]

OMG!!

Wisconsin mother, son leave fallen relative to die

A Wisconsin woman and her son abandoned their 70-year-old relative after she fell to the floor, going out for pizza rather than administering aid, prosecutors alleged this week. The relative died two days later.

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Mary Coleman fell while visiting Veronica King's home in May 2009, the criminal complaint said. She allegedly lay there, talking occasionally until she died, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report ( http://bit.ly/oyMoR3).

"I told her quite frankly to shut up" because someone might call the police, Steven King told investigators.

Veronica King said she gave her dying sister liquids but no food, the complaint said.

Veronica King also told police that after Coleman died, neither she nor her son called to have the body removed "because we had other things to do that day," the complaint said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/07/national/a093200D76.DTL#ixzz1XJLxIQgb

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I have no words...

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. does this rise to the level of manslaughter?

I sure hope it does.

[Broderick]

3. close

Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the victim's 71-year-old sister, Veronica King, of Madison, and 45-year-old nephew, Steven King, of Evansville. The charges include first-degree reckless homicide, hiding a corpse and recklessly subjecting an individual at risk to abuse.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/07/national/a093200D76.DTL#ixzz1XJNfMs00


Also bank fraud for cashing her checks and draining the bank.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Your last sentence:

I knew it! I'm guessing that's also why they let her die.

[Broderick]

6. Yeah

Watching her die a slow death so they could cash in. Sigh again. People are EVIL.

[LiberalFighter]

9. There are too many people like that. Too many.

Only thinking about themselves with little care about others.

[Auntie Bush]

13. And I bet they're all republicans.

:evilgrin: I can't believe people like that exist.

[malaise]

12. Her fugging sister?

Good fugging grief!! Some humans are beyond depraved

[Broderick]

14. The couple here in Virginia that had a child buried under the shed

and another six year old child weighing in the teens eating her own flakes of skin lying in her own filth, locked in a crib, comes to mind. It boggles the mind how depraved and cruel folks are.

[0rganism]

5. Steven King. Really? Reads more like a Stephen King story

"Steven King told investigators that on May 6, 2009 he and his mother knew Coleman was sick but they didn't take her to a doctor because it was his birthday."

Holy Shit. Just Holy Shit. Here, have some cake, you twisted little sociopath.

[LiberalFighter]

10. The guy was 45 and his birthday was more important than someone's life?

He is past the age that his birthday should be a major event. That is the behavior of a kid or young adult.

[Broderick]

15. I think 800 bucks in SS money a month

(just guessing) was the motive.

[Taverner]

7. And you folks wonder why I say there is no god...

[TeamsterDem]

8. I'm speechless. nt

[undeterred]

11. Something similar happened to a woman in my neighorhood...

She was an elderly woman (80) out doing yardwork and had some kind of cardiac event because of the heat. She was lying on the ground outside for a few minutes but nobody saw her, even though she was not far from a busy street. Finally she crawled into the house and laid down on her bed.

While she was lying there a neighbor came over into her house and said, "What's wrong with you?" "I think I'm dying" "Oh I can't deal with this" the neighbor said and left.

Then the phone rang and the elderly woman picked it up. It was her sister in law, who asked what she was doing. "I'm dying" she said. And her sister in law said "Oh, no you're not" and called 911. She was rushed to the hospital by ambulance and stayed there for 3 weeks.

The neighbor who left did nothing. Some times people are very strange.

[bengalherder]

16. Sounds like my former boss.

She would get vapors just having to train someone how to toss the salad. She'd go all vague-looking and say, "Oh, I can't deal with this now!" and walk away.

Needless to say, she was useless in a emergency.

Poor lady. It goes beyond comprehension. The Steven King thing is morbidly funny, but a horrible coincidence. Just like that awful IA rep. A

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Steven King... meets Ayn Rand.

the empathy is overwhelming.

[Odin2005]

18. This is what happens when you have a society that teachs people to only think about oneself.