An Alberta couple have each been sentenced to four years in prison after the woman’s elderly mother was left lying on the floor for seven to 10 days in her own excrement before the couple called 911.
Court of King’s Bench Justice Kelsey Becker Brookes imposed the sentence on June Briggs and her common-law partner Richard McElroy after finding them guilty of criminal negligence causing the death of Briggs’ mother, Dianne Simmons.
The judge said Simmons was a vulnerable senior who failed to receive “the basic care, dignity, safety and medical assistance she required.”
“I have considered all the circumstances of this heartbreaking case. This was a very serious offence,” Judge Becker Brookes wrote in her Aug. 26 sentencing decision….