A Florida woman who was accused of locking up her mother with dementia and Alzheimer’s while refusing to change her dirty Pampers also drained the 78-year-old’s “life savings,” according to police.
Janet Edwards, 49, of Hialeah, is now facing charges of elderly exploitation, grand theft from a person 65 or older, organized scheme to defraud and identity theft in addition to neglect of an elderly or disabled adult and battery on a person 65 or older, according to online court records.
An arrest warrant obtained by Law&Crime says Edwards, who had power of attorney over her mom, sold the woman’s home and raked in more than $460,000 in doing so. She allegedly moved more than $250,000 of it to her own bank accounts and spent more than $24,000 of her mother’s money to purchase a pickup truck, WPLG reports…