Sentenced: Scott Loven Left 130lb Wife To Die After She Fell In Bathtub Because He Thought She Was 'Obese'

[Sugar Cookie]

Scott Douglas Loven, 75, was sentenced to 41 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of criminal neglect by a person who knows or has reason to know deprivation will result in great bodily harm.

On May 8, 2023, police responded to a report about a woman dead in a bathtub at a home in northwest Rochester, a large city located roughly 85 miles southeast of Minneapolis. There, officers found the body of Iris Jean Anderson, 93. The medical examiner would classify her death as a homicide caused by a gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to prolonged immobility because of blunt force injuries.

The arrival of law enforcement appears to have been caused by a game of telephone.

A pastor had actually visited the residence on the day in question as part of his regular provision of services to the family – and Loven allegedly told him about his wife's death, police say. Then, "a couple days later," the pastor called Anderson's daughter to relay the story and "assumed things had been taken care of," according to a police report obtained by Rochester-based radio station KROC.

In the ensuing investigation, Loven said his wife needed help he was unable to render as she went to the bathroom – but disclaimed any knowledge about how she got into the bathtub, according to police.

Once she was in the bathtub, however, Loven said he told her "she needed to get out of the bathtub and keep moving" and that she was still breathing and had a pulse at that point, according to the police report. The report assumes Anderson fell from the toilet at some point. Loven noticed an abrasion on her arm, which he tried to treat since he is a nurse, the report goes on to say. Then, when he tried to help her "into a better position" in the bathtub, he fell himself.

The report details the initial interview at length:

Loven recalled that when [Anderson] fell into the bathtub she was saying "Scott, help me!" Loven could not recall when [Anderson] died, but said it was days prior. He remembered [Anderson] asked him to take her to the hospital. Loven was a caretaker for Victim because she had dementia, memory problems, and was losing her hearing and vision. He made sure she took her medications and ate. Loven said he was scared and didn't know what to do, and he began to drink heavily.

The next day, the defendant was interviewed by police again and some slight changes to his story occurred.

This time, Loven allegedly said he heard a cry for help and then found his wife on the floor. Then, he allegedly said he "tried to pull her into the bathtub because he thought that would be better than on the bathroom floor," according to the report. After falling into the bathtub, Anderson said she needed to go to the hospital.

Here, the defendant allegedly offered two excuses. First, he said his 130-pound wife was "obese so he could not help her," according to the report. Loven also allegedly told his wife "he did not want to put her in the car and drive her to the hospital to sit in the waiting room."

"He said it was at that point that he knew she was not in a good way and was dying so he kept her in the bathtub," the report reads. "Loven said he did not think about calling anyone, including 911."

Police said they determined the residence had a working landline.

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Man allowed 130-pound wife to die after she fell in bathtub because he thought she was 'obese'

"Loven recalled that when [Anderson] fell into the bathtub she was saying 'Scott, help me!' Loven could not recall when Anderson died, but said it was days prior."

lawandcrime.com

 

[Aedia]

He was a nurse but thought drinking into a stupor was a better idea than calling 911?!
He definitely wanted her dead. Maybe he was tired of caring for her. Maybe he wanted to be alone. Maybe he wanted all her assets and thought he could find himself a (totally not Nigerian scam) new girlfriend online. Perhaps a mix.
Either way....mans wanted her g o n e.

 

[HEREIBE22]

He was her 2nd husband and had been her care taker for 30 years. There is almost a 20 year age difference smh.... Remind me of this when I think about becoming a cougar...

 

[Freyja]

Look at this horse-faced piece of shit talking about his 93-year-old wife being obese at 130 lbs!

 

[BuffettGirl]

So then, he's a murderer...

 

[runninfawn]

He was her 2nd husband and had been her care taker for 30 years. There is almost a 20 year age difference smh.... Remind me of this when I think about becoming a cougar...

there was a 20 years dif. cuz in 23 he would have been 73 to her 93... what person in their 40s really want to marry someone in their 60s is beyond me unless they see some $$$ or benifits by doing so..

 

[Symmachus]

I read the article, and the dude seems like he has a lot of confusing, garbled, hodge-podging as to how his wife died. If someone did the right thing or was at least trying to do so, then wouldn't their story be much more straightforward and much easier for someone else to repeat and recall details of?

Equipping word salads and hardly comprehensible stories is one way for a person to obfuscate, at least temporarily, from their guilt.