In March 2002, the corpse of an old woman found in her apartment in an urban apartment in a Western German town. The apartment was untidy in non-organic terms but no rotten organic matter was seen. In this case, further evidence for neglect of the living person was found in the fact that the skin of the corpse was not fed on by the larvae, and that pressure spots had formed. The son of the woman was accused of misconduct of taking care of his mother. He claimed that he fed his mother the evening before she died, and that she was well at this point. Referring to the pressure spots, his statement was not believed by the judge.
Fig.1 Note the matching pressure marks indicating that the head had been resulting on the neck for a prolonged time interval whilst the woman was still alive yet severely neglected by her son.
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