Evanston Woman Avoids Prison for Neglecting Elderly Mother

EVANSTON, IL - An Evanston woman will avoid prison time after she plead guilty to neglecting her elderly mother.

Instead, a judge at the Skokie Courthouse this week sentenced Margaret M. Flaherty, 50, to 30 months of probation, according to the Evanston Review. During the sentence, Flaherty will be subject to undergo treatment for drug and alcohol use and have no contact with her mother.

Authorities claimed Flaherty “knowingly failed to provide hygiene, nutrition, prescribed medication and medical care to maintain her mother’s health” when she was arrested last June.

Flaherty neglected her mother, who was found in bed lying in feces in urine, from September 2014 to May 2015. During that time, she would go several days without being bathed and her weight dropped to 84 pounds.

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