Today’s Squalid Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Everyone failed Makayla Norman. Born with cerebral palsy, Makayla was unable to walk, speak or care for herself in any way, and she could not even eat normally. She lived with her mother Angela and an older sister in Dayton, Ohio. She’d attended public school but her mother had withdrawn her from school, saying she was going to “home school” her. School officials later admitted that they had not followed their own policy of monitoring home-schooled students’ progress.
Makayla Norman: Helpless.
Makayla was bedridden and was supposed to receive nursing care six days a week. This did not happen. Mollie Parsons, who was supposed to provide nursing care from 3 to 11 PM six days a week, only visited the home a few times a month. Neighbors reported that when she did arrive at the home, she would honk her horn and Angela Norman would join her in the car, and they’d leave to go shopping. Other nursing professionals were supposed to monitor Makayla’s care on a regular basis, but did not.
On March 1, 2011, Mollie Parsons arrived at the Norman home and left at 10 PM, writing in her official report that Makayla appeared to be in good health and was resting comfortably. Just two minutes after she left, Angela Norman called 911 to say that Makayla was not breathing. Paramedics arrived and the girl was taken to the hospital, but it was too late; she was dead.
Mollie Parsons: She don’t give no shits.
At the time of her death, Makayla weighed only 28 pounds. She was covered in bedsores from her ears to her ankles, her colon was so impacted that her stomach bulged, her skin was caked in filth and her hair, even her lashes and brows, was infested with lice. Her cause of death was due to nutritional and medical neglect; it was later revealed she had been receiving only a few cans of Ensure a day through her feeding tube. The home was also filthy, with dead bugs in the refrigerator, human waste, garbage and dirty dishes strewn about, and no running water. There was, however, Internet and phone service, paid for by Mollie Parsons.
Angela Norman: Mother of the Year.
Angela Norman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Mollie Parsons also pleaded guilty and received ten years in prison. Two other nurses, Mary Kilby and Kathryn Williams, received five years’ probation and all surrendered their nursing credentials.
Culled from: Murderpedia
Submitted by: Aimee
How in the name of anything did these trained professionals justify themselves? Makay’s condition and the conditions in her home would have been obvious to even an untrained eye and nose. How could anyone even stand to go inside? How could anyone allow somebody so completely helpless to be kept in those surroundings? – Aimee
How is this not murder?
I guess because they couldn’t show deliberate intent? Like you’d have deliberate intent if you took somebody’s head off with a sling blade, or lay in wait and shot them as they walked past?
But I agree, they all got off too easily. It wasn’t the same as an accident where somebody made a momentary mistake or something; an average or even below-average person should have known better. Even if Angela Norman herself didn’t know better and was used to living in a pigsty, the nurses are supposed to be able to tell when a patient isn’t doing well, and anybody should have seen right away that conditions in the home were unlivable and dangerous.