BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN
THE NEWS JOURNAL
AUGUST 21, 2009
A 40-year-old Middletown woman who was convicted in June of financially exploiting and neglecting the care of an elderly man was sentenced today to probation.
Superior Court Judge Peggy L. Ableman said there was no question in her mind that Helen Lloyd had committed crimes but said the state of Delaware bore at least as much responsibility for the abuse and neglect that the 68-year-old man suffered.
Neither the Delaware Attorney General’s office nor the state’s Division of Health and Human services had an immediate comment this morning.
Ableman said the victim should have never been placed with Lloyd in the first place.
When the man was removed from Lloyd’s home, he was dehydrated, malnourished and covered in bed sores, according to police.
Dwyer said he clearly had not been receiving any care for about nine months. She also said the defendant continues to blame everyone but herself for what happened.
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