INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman was recently arrested after she reportedly refused to pick up her partially paralyzed daughter off the floor when she fell from her bed, causing the daughter to remain there for a week.
According to court documents, filed in Marion County on Thursday, 75-year-old Rose Chavis has been charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in bodily injury, each a Level 5 felony.
In mid-September, first responders were called to a home on Lancashire Court on an initial report of an assault. When they arrived, they reportedly found a 40-year-old woman lying on the floor between the wall and her bed. The woman told police that she initially fell out of her bed and could not get up.
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The woman told medics that she had been on the floor for seven days and was not able to get up on her own because of her cerebral palsy and her being partially paralyzed. The documents said that the woman was reportedly urinating and defecating on herself.