A Patton, Mo., woman faces a manslaughter charge after an autopsy revealed that one of her home-health patients had ulcers and bedsores with maggots in the wounds when she died.
53-year-old Sherrie Coomer is charged in connection to the death of 80-year-old Patricia Joan Langston. When authorities arrived at Langston's home on Jewel Drive to investigate her Oct. 23 death, foul play was not initially suspected. However, the Southeast Missourian reports that when Coroner John Clifton arrived at the scene, he noticed a strong smell of decomposition and found that she was sitting in a feces-stained diaper. Clifton found several bedsores on the woman's back with maggots, in the wounds. Langston had employed Coomer to stay with her 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Coomer was paid to groom and bathe her, as well as ensure she took her medication and went to doctors' appointments. Coomer will be arraigned Tuesday.
53-year-old Sherrie Coomer is charged in connection to the death of 80-year-old Patricia Joan Langston. When authorities arrived at Langston's home on Jewel Drive to investigate her Oct. 23 death, foul play was not initially suspected. However, the Southeast Missourian reports that when Coroner John Clifton arrived at the scene, he noticed a strong smell of decomposition and found that she was sitting in a feces-stained diaper. Clifton found several bedsores on the woman's back with maggots, in the wounds. Langston had employed Coomer to stay with her 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Coomer was paid to groom and bathe her, as well as ensure she took her medication and went to doctors' appointments. Coomer will be arraigned Tuesday.
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