Daughter compared 93-year-old mom’s injury to ‘a bird with an injured wing’ while letting her wither away and rot in recliner: Police

A 62-year-old Indiana woman allowed her 93-year-old mother to wither in a recliner until she died, suffering from bedsores “so deep they had reached the bone,” cops allege.

Sandra Antolick is charged with neglect of a dependent in the death of her mother, JoAnne Antolick, in Valparaiso.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, cops responded around 1:40 p.m. Sept. 16, 2025, to a home in the 100 block of North Morgan Boulevard for a deceased person call…

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