84-Year-Old Man Recovering From Severe Elder Neglect, Daughter in Jail | Crime Alert 08.15.25

An 84-year-old Florida man remains hospitalized this week after his 54-year-old daughter left him sitting in a recliner for two months and hadn’t gotten him medical care since January.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
Sidney Sumner. An eighty four year old Florida man remains
hospitalized this week after his fifty four year old daughter
left him sitting in a recliner for two months and
hadn't gotten him medical care since January. Pamela Reynolds finally

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called nine one one on July thirty first because her
father had a rapid heart rate. She told investigators she
hadn't seen any of his multiple severe injuries a sacram injury,
necrotic tissue in his hip, malnourishment, peeling skin, bruises, and
bed sores, or that his injuries beard, fingernails, and feet

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were covered in filth. Reynolds said that her father would
primarily sit and lie down in his recliner chair in
front of the television, and that she had not moved
him since early June. Investigators noted in the police report
that Pamela said there were transportation difficulties and that she
attempted to take him to the doctor back in April
but was unsuccessful and did not attempt again until she

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had called nine one one on July thirty first at
Scambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said the case was horrific.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I will say that the description of this one and
what are the medical staff and the protective services individuals
and our deputies and crime scene had to see, witness, describe,
document what they had to do in this particular case
is probably the worst that I can remember. This includes

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some maggots in that rotten flesh, feces mixed inside there,
and everything is mean as bad as you can you
can imagine. In fact, it's bad enough to read it,
it's bad enough to describe it. Imagine what it would
be like to have to live through that when you're
the persson that's relatively incapacitated.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
The elderly man suffered from other health ailments in addition
to the abuse heaped on him by the daughter, including
diabetes and heart disease. Police said they with him in
the hospital and he was able to confirm he'd been
sitting in the recliner for months.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's hard to comprehend how someone can allow it to
get this bad for this long. I think the important
part here is that he's going to get the care
that he should have gotten months ago.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Reynolds pleaded not guilty to a charge of elder neglect
last week. She is being held on a ten thousand
dollars bond and has been ordered to have no contact
with her father if she is released. Her next court
appearance is August twenty second. More crime and justice news
after this. An Indiana couple was formally charged with murder

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this week in the death of a six year old boy.
Franklin Elmore Junior, twenty nine and Cheyenne Elmore, twenty seven,
appeared in court on Monday to face the charges for
the death of Franklin Elmore's son. The Elmorees were arrested
last week after the child was rushed to a hospital
with traumatic injuries that the boy's father said he caused himself,
but an investigation uncovered surveillance video from the boy's playroom

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that showed his father attacking him before his death. Further
court paperwork reveals that Elmore paced around in the yard
with his hands on his head before the boy's stepmother,
who was in the room during the attack and did nothing,
called nine one one. Emergency room staff did not believe
the boy's injuries were self inflicted, as claimed by his father.

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They found a brain bleed and a punctured lung, along
with bruises and other abrasions all over his body. WNDU
further spoke with the boy's biological mother, who lives in Alabama.
She told the outlet she had contacted the state's Department
of Child Services on multiple occasions because of things her
son told her, but they did nothing.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I reported to CPS the things that my son was saying,
and I know that they said that they could do
nothing because they didn't find any bruises. But when my
son tells me that he goes to bed hungry at
night when he gets in trouble, I don't care if
there's food in that house, mak me one thousand dollars
worth the food in that house. Are they fading it
to him? Is he aiding it?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
The mother said she had filed a formal report with
the state agency, but they allegedly said they found nothing
that required action. The agency sent the station a statement
saying they were aware of an investigation but providing no
information due to an ongoing police investigation or criminal prosecution.
A forty year old Texas man stands charged with the

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stabbing death of a seventy seven year old grandfather as
he rode his bicycle to work earlier this month. Houston
Police say Aaron Bartholomew Sheehan was booked into the Harris
County Jail on Tuesday, charged with murder in the August
seventh death of anival Patricio Elvir Ortiz. Or Tees was
on his way to work at about five forty five

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am that morning, riding his bike on a trail along
Harrisburg Boulevard. Surveillance video showed the suspect step out from
behind a fence and stab or Tees in the back.
Or Tees kept riding for about ten minutes until he
got to work. Once there, he told co workers that
a man hit him on his ride, then he collapsed.
He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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He rode all the way to work, collapsed at work,
They called an ambulance, and he's since passed away at
Memorial Herman Hospital. That he might not have realized his
injuries were so severe and he just kept riding his
bike and then eventually he succumbed to his injuries. Houston
Police Sergeant Mark Holbrook gave the SAT update that Ortiz
succumbed to his injuries. Investigators followed a blood trail back

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to where they believed the attack took place, and from
there found the surveillance video. The suspect was spotted shortly
after the stabbing at a mass transit station, and police
released images of him asking for help with identification. Five
days later, Sheehan was in custody. She hand had recently
been released from prison after a plea deal regarding another

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violent incident where he struck someone with a metal poll.
Shee Han was not in court on Wednesday, when a
judge set his bond at a million dollars because he
was undergoing a mental health evaluation. For the latest crime
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crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.