ICYMI: Upper East Side Woman Left Husband On Floor For 8 Days After Fall

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A 68-year-old woman is facing charges for leaving her husband on the floor of their Upper East Side apartment for eight days after he fell down, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

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Lynn Roberts was charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent or disabled person in the first degree, a felony charge, according to a criminal complaint. Roberts was arrested on March 15, the same day EMS responders found her husband "laying on the ground on his stomach, barely conscious and covered in feces, urine and vomit," inside their East 63rd Street apartment, according to a criminal complaint.

Roberts' husband was brought to New York Presbyterian hospital suffering from open wounds to his chest, face, elbows and knees, according to a criminal complaint. Because the man was left on the ground for eight days skin around the wound had begun to rot and decay, prosecutors said. The man was also suffering from severe necrosis, sepsis and renal failure, according to the criminal complaint.

Prosecutors could not provide information about the man's current condition.

When police asked Roberts why she left her husband on the ground for eight days she told them, "I tried to get him up but he told me no, that he will do it. I was afraid that if I kept trying to help him he was going to yell at me."

Roberts told police that her husband suffers from vertigo and that he is verbally, but not physically, aggressive with her. She waited until March 15 to call for help because her husband was less hostile, she told police.

"He did call out for me and I gave him water and kisses when he did," Roberts told police.

Roberts was released following a March 16 court appearance, even though prosecutors asked for $25,000 bail, a spokesman from the District Attorney's office told Patch. She will appear in court again on May 3.

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