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Wife dies after being left on floor for ten weeks

reported by the Associated Press

MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. --- Sheriff's officers have arrested an 82-year-old man after his wife died on the floor of their home, apparently about 10 weeks after she fell out of bed and was unable to get up.

John Klein was arrested for investigation of second-degree manslaughter after he called 911 on Monday to report that his 73-year-old wife Pia had no pulse.

Klein told Spokane County sheriff's Detective Jim Dresback that his wife of 52 years fell out of bed around last Thanksgiving, Dresback said in court papers filed Tuesday.

According to that account, Klein had been working outside, came in and found his wife lying next to the bed in the doorway of the master bathroom. He said she cried out in pain and told him to leave her alone when he tried to help her up.

After that, Klein said he left her lying on her left side on the floor for the next 10 weeks, bringing her food and water, giving her medications and cleaning her but did not summon any medical aid. The woman had no significant medical problems, Klein told detectives. It was not clear what medications he gave her.

Klein's bond was set at $200,000 at his initial court appearance Tuesday. Klein told the judge, in his words, "I don't consider it to be my fault. She did not want help." It was not immediately known if he was represented by a lawyer.

Klein told Dresback the couple have an adult daughter who lives in North Carolina and normally talks with them by phone every other weekend. Asked if the daughter spoke to her mother after the fall, Klein said his wife had told him to tell the daughter she was sick.

When Klein was asked whether his wife had asked him to summon help for her, "he looked down for about five or six seconds, then said, 'No,"' the detective wrote. In the affidavit, the detective alleged Klein was criminally negligent in failing to summon medical help.

Klein reportedly told the detective he thought his wife would eventually get up and start walking on her own, adding he told her to exercise while she was lying on the floor.

The woman apparently had been lying naked on the stained, carpeted floor and had several large ulcers on her left hip and left leg, "consistent with her having been lying on her left side for an extended period of time," the affidavit said. A soiled pillow lay in the bathroom doorway.

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Comments from Rev Mother Theresa

Now this is the kind of article that makes me want to smack someone in the head! What kind of a husband leaves his wife on the floor after falling out bed for 10 weeks??? He does not call for medical help he does not tell his daughter that her mother has fallen??? 52 years he is married and this man does nothing! I am sorry but; this man is eather dumb, senile, crazy, or just did not care if his fracken wife lived or died! This makes me sick! I really pray that someone will do the right thing in this womans death because this to me is horrible to do to any human being especially by a husband.

Comments from yanjiaren ^{99.243.239.108}

This is terrible, how can a human life be treated with such callousness. I read this and cringed.

Comments from Abp Leslie Mary Trombly

How can a man ignore his wife like that just because she said "leave her alone"? If he loved her and i mean really loved her, he would have called an ambulance to take her to the hospital and she would probably be alive today. Another thing if he cared for her as he said he did the how come she was "naked on the floor" and in the same position that she fell in? Sounds to me like he never really cared at all. It should be obvious with he stains on the pillow and carpet and being naked- Especially in such cold weather as it is in Washington State at this time of year!

In my opinion, I think he just didn't care and wanted her to "just go away" and she did... in death.

Comments from Dorothy ^{70.198.130.68}

When we say life can be stranger then fiction this is the best example of I don't belief it. I wonder if the husband at his age was capable of making a different decision and I question the judgement of the daughter who had not spoken to her mom since Thanksgiving.

Unbelievable..

Dorothy from grammology

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