Caregiver sells elderly father’s pain pills, kills him through neglect
WHAT A HEEL: Alphonso Patrick Moya Jr., was charged with aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and distribution of a controlled substance, both second-degree felonies after his 72-year-old father, who was in his care died from dehydration, malnutrition and bedsores, Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) reports:
When police responded to Moya's home at 1082 S. Glendale Circle on July 16, they detected "a very strong odor of bleach, feces and decomposing tissue," according to charging documents.
The bedroom Moya's father had occupied had been thoroughly cleaned. Police found the mattress the man had been using outside by the garbage can "saturated with urine and feces," the charges state.
Moya told police his father had not had a bath or shower for about two weeks, the charges state.
Police said Moya also had been filling his father's monthly Lortab [acetaminophen and hydrocodone] prescriptions but was selling the pills.
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