Sentenced: Virginia Woman Found With Maggots In Urine; Daughter, Granddaughter Charged

[Sugar Cookie]

A woman and her daughter in Pittsylvania County, Virginia have been charged with abuse and neglect of their mother and grandmother.

According to the criminal complaint, the Pittsylvania County Department of Social Services- Adult Protective Services reported a senior adult abuse and neglect case to the Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office after they were alerted to it by the hospital in Danville.

They reported that 74-year-old Eileen Myers lived with her daughter, Shannon Tipton, her adult granddaughter, Brianna Tipton, and Brianna's child in Pittsylvania County.

Documents show Myers was released from the hospital on March 18, 2020, after having a foley catheter placed. A foley catheter is a tube inserted into the bladder to drain urine.

The hospital reported that Myers was taken to the emergency room on April 2, 2020, with maggots in her urine and vaginal area and had beginning stages of minor bedsores.

Medical records show Myers was cleaned, her foley was flushed, and she was released the same day back into the care of Shannon and Brianna.

Documents show Shannon is Eileen Myers' financial Power of Attorney/Responsible Party. Investigators wrote that Shannon and Brianna admitted to locking Eileen's bedroom door from the outside at night to 'prevent her from wandering'.

They also told investigators they would put her to bed and lock her door from the outside at approximately 9 p.m. and not check on her again until the next day, about 12 hours later.

Both Shannon and Brianna Tipton are facing two charges of felony abuse and neglect of incapacitated adult resulting in serious bodily injury or disease.

Both bitches are being held without bond.

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[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Disgraceful.

 

[Siobhan]

Jesus wept.

 

[Sejanus]

Hey Brianna, you look like your mom.
Your future is officially bleak.

Give them both a decade in cages.

 

[Victoria]

 

[LFODBiker]

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[Keepalowprofile]

They also told investigators they would put her to bed and lock her door from the outside at approximately 9 p.m. and not check on her again until the next day, about 12 hours later.

How could they be so fucking cold.

 

[Siobhan]

How could they be so fucking cold.

IDK @Keepalowprofile but this angers me as much as child abuse.
When grandma Paine came to live with us, it was because her Dr. had given the whole family an ultimatum:
"If she survives, I will not release her if she's going back to where she lived when she came here on death's door, because if I do, there will be no need to call 911 for an ambulance next time, because you will need to call a funeral home.".
She'd been mistreated a lot like this poor woman, and her grandson (whom she raised) and his wife lived with her, in *her* home. The neglect was severe, and they'd only take her to the Dr. or pharmacy if she brought her checkbook, and wrote an extra check or three for them. They even had her asthma medications for her nebulizer hidden in a shoe box under *their bed*, which should have been in her room as she knew how to use it, and as it was prescribed to *her*.
It was by Deity's grace that her grandson's MIL came over, and asked, "Where's Betty?", and he replied that she wasn't feeling good and hadn't been for over a week, saying "I tried to bring her a hot dog, but she said she wasn't hungry.". Well, thank all higher powers that be, that grandson's MIL wasn't just going to take their word for it, and went into grandma's room to see for herself - she went in, tried to talk to grandma, who wasn't coherent, felt her head for a temp, and came back out telling her daughter and son-in-law, "Call 911 NOW!!!"
They tried to argue, saying she was just a bit tired, but this woman stood up for all that is right in this world and said, "Bullshit! If we don't get her to a hospital, immediately, she will DIE!".
Thank God for this woman, or we wouldn't have had grandma Paine around for 10 more years to love, guide and teach us knowledge of the way they did things before the modern era of electric powered everything.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Siobhan

I am so happy that you and others rescued grandma Paine and made her final years full of love and safety.

It always amazes me that these bums abuse and neglect the elderly that they are living off of.

They would have probably lied after she died to keep collecting her social security check.

Were these two assholes ever arrested?

 

[Inferus]

Getting Pet Sematary vibes off of this. Just keep family locked in the backroom like some animal.

 

[Satanica]

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According to the criminal complaint, the Pittsylvania County Department of Social Services- Adult Protective Services reported a senior adult abuse and neglect case to the Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office after they were alerted to it by the hospital in Danville.

They reported that 74-year-old Eileen Myers lived with her daughter, Shannon Tipton, her adult granddaughter, Brianna Tipton, and Brianna's child in Pittsylvania County.

Documents show Myers was released from the hospital on March 18, 2020, after having a foley catheter placed. A foley catheter is a tube inserted into the bladder to drain urine.

The hospital reported that Myers was taken to the emergency room on April 2, 2020, with maggots in her urine and vaginal area and had beginning stages of minor bedsores.

Medical records show Myers was cleaned, her foley was flushed, and she was released the same day back into the care of Shannon and Brianna.

Documents show Shannon is Eileen Myers' financial Power of Attorney/Responsible Party. Investigators wrote that Shannon and Brianna admitted to locking Eileen's bedroom door from the outside at night to 'prevent her from wandering'.

They also told investigators they would put her to bed and lock her door from the outside at approximately 9 p.m. and not check on her again until the next day, about 12 hours later.

Both Shannon and Brianna Tipton are facing two charges of felony abuse and neglect of incapacitated adult resulting in serious bodily injury or disease.

They are both being held in the Lynchburg Adult Detention Center without bond.

According to online jail records, they were booked on Monday, July 13 and will be in court on Sept. 9 at 10 a.m.

Virginia woman found with maggots in urine; daughter, granddaughter charged

PITTSYLVANIA Co. , Va. (WSET) -- A woman and her daughter in Pittsylvania County, Virginia have been charged with abuse and neglect of their mother and grandmother. According to the criminal complaint, the Pittsylvania County Department of Social Services- Adult Protective Services reported a...

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[Prettypink513]

Sometimes I hate humans

 

[Siobhan]

@Sugar Cookie No, no arrests. The Family Services guy was friends with the wife, and he claimed grandma said she wasn't neglected when he "interviewed her", except he only came once, the day after she was hospitalized, and she wasn't conscious to be interviewed.
Once we got her home with us, she didn't want to do anything that would jeopardize her great-grandchildren's stability of having a home, and although she still had a life estate after signing the house to her grandson, she didn't want to revoke the home, again because of the children.
She was 77 when she came to live with us, and died just 3 months shy of her 89th birthday of Huntington's disease. We were blessed to have her for so long!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

It took a Pittsylvania County Circuit Court jury 45 minutes to find Shannon Myers Tipton guilty in the July death of her elderly mother who was in Tipton’s care.

“She was in agony,” Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Alexis Johnson told the jury during closing arguments during Tipton’s trial.

The victim, 74-old Eileen Myers, had several bed sores and pressure ulcers on her body and was left lying in her own waste while under the care of Tipton, prosecutors said. Myers, Tipton and Tipton’s daughter, Brianna Tipton, and her granddaughter lived in the home on Oak Hill Road in Pittsylvania County.

After finding Shannon Tipton guilty of felony homicide and elder abuse and neglect the jury recommended a sentence of 30 years in prison.

Tipton, 48, testified for about an hour in court, claiming her bedridden mother drank three to four 32-ounce containers of water per day, had a voracious appetite and ate “like a 16-year-old boy” while under her care at Tipton’s home.

But the prosecution’s evidence, including photos of a severely emaciated Myers, told a different story. Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Haskins compared her appearance — with her knees larger than her thighs, he pointed out — to that of a Holocaust victim.

“This defendant starved her mother,” Haskins told jurors.

During her testimony, Tipton said she took on the role of mother to her mom, including guiding her finances and changing the oil in her car. She began providing her medical needs about six years ago.

“My mom was basically my best friend,” Tipton said of their relationship.

At first, Tipton went to her mom’s home on Montague Street and made sure she ate and took her baths and medications. But soon she stopped taking her medications and left her stove on, Tipton testified. The roof also collapsed in her home, she added.

Myers then moved into Tipton’s home on Oak Hill Road in Pittsylvania County about five or six years ago.

“She could still cook, but we did it together, she could still do laundry, but we did it together,” Tipton testified. “I would try to push her, encourage her to do things on her own.”

But in November 2019, she had a seizure and a heart attack and was left bedridden. In January 2020, she had to get a catheter.

On April 2, 2020, Myers pulled out her catheter.

“We noticed maggots,” Tipton said. “I was livid.”

At times, Myers sobbed on the stand, testifying that she was under lots of stress and suffering from depression at the time under accusations from law enforcement and adult protective services.

“They were immediately accusing me of hurting my mother,” she said.

She told the court her house was clean while her mom lived there, but the prosecution — and ultimately the jury — did not buy her story.

The home was in terrible condition, the prosecution pointed out, with dogs in the house, feces and flies. Urine, ammonia and feces could be smelled from outside the home.

Tipton denied there was a fly infestation in her home and denied accusations of locking her mother in her room.

Johnson pressed her on the stand, asking her how her mother got maggots in her private area in April if the house was clean.

“I don’t know,” Tipton answered.

Prosecutors also pointed out that in May 2020, Brianna’s 5-year-old daughter was seen entering the reeking house seemingly unaffected. That indicated that the home had been filthy for so long that the child was used to it, the prosecution said.

Tipton also testified that she did not wake her mother to change her diapers at night. She would put two diapers on her mother at night, she said.

Tipton’s attorney, Michael Nicholas, during his arguments, told the court that she was a responsible caregiver.

“When something went wrong, she did not neglect her,” Nicholas said, pointing out that Tipton would take her to the hospital.

While Tipton’s practices — including putting her mother in diapers — may have been medically unsound, it did not amount to neglect, he argued.
“
Trying and failing is not neglect,” Nicholas said, adding that she did not willfully and knowingly fail to provide care.

Myers died in hospice on July 16, 2020, from bacteremia (bacteria in the blood), chronic malnutrition and dehydration.

Tipton’s daughter, Brianna Tipton, was found guilty last month on the same charges. The jury recommended 18 years.

Daughter convicted of felony homicide, elder abuse and neglect in Pittsylvania County

Jury recommends a 30-year sentence.

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[thuumpr]

But if you take grandma, we won't get our social security check.

 

[Totemic]

Sometimes I hate humans

Only sometimes? You're better than me.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A Pittsylvania County woman was found guilty of child abuse Tuesday morning after a gruesome trial brought to light the house of nightmares that her 6-year-old daughter was forced to live in before the child's father was awarded full custody.

Brianna Michelle Tipton, 27, who is already serving an 18-year prison sentence for fatally abusing her grandmother, now faces an additional 10 years and $100,000 penalty thanks to a damning conviction by the Honorable Judge Stacey W. Moreau in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.

On Oct. 19, 2020, a Grand Jury handed down the child abuse indictment after a May 7 incident in which investigators responded to the house of horrors to investigate the reports of elder abuse that have already been litigated against Tipton and her mother, Shannon. At the time, Tipton confined both her daughter and grandmother to inhumane conditions and isolated her daughter from loved ones.

"[Tipton] fought to keep my daughter out of my life," the child's father, Zachery Hedrick, testified.

After more than three years fearing for the safety of his daughter, Hedrick has gained full custody. She will never return to the living nightmare at 2293 Oak Hill Rd. in the Cascade area west of Danville.

When investigators first made contact with the defendant, it didn't take long to realize something was very, very wrong. Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Investigator Janet Sargent testified that, standing outdoors as many as 30 feet away from the house, a caustic smell became immediately overwhelming.

"An odor was coming from [Brianna and Shannon] and the house," said Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Investigator Kelly Hendricks. "When she opened the door, it was an overwhelming smell of decomposition, garbage, urine, feces and ammonia."

Investigators returned to the home on June 12 to execute a search warrant. Tipton refused to answer the door after numerous attempts, Hendricks testified.

"There was urine and feces all over the floor," Hendricks said. "There was decomposing food on the countertop and garbage overflowing."

Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Alexis Johnson presented gruesome photos to the court Tuesday morning that painted the sickening scene. The child's bedroom was especially haunting – a single mattress with no sheets or pillows was overshadowed by something much more disturbing.

"Feces was splattered inside the child's bedroom," Hendricks said. "Shoved under the bed were paper towels caked with feces and urine."

In an emotionally charged closing argument, Johnson would say, "There is literal sh-t all throughout her bed."

A portable commode used by Tipton's grandmother, 74-year-old Eileen Myers, who was already hospitalized at Sovah Health for abuse she sustained inside the house, was found in the hallway just outside the child's bedroom full of months-old human waste and dead maggots.

Investigators located large piles of feces and garbage on the floor in the hallway, in the basement and in the child's playroom. Inside the house were also loose dogs, ferrets, birds and an "uncountable number" of flies. Blanketing the floor of the playroom was a layer of birdseed mixed with feces.

Hendricks described urine throughout the house as "a sheen that seemed to constantly stay wet" in every room. In the basement, urine had saturated a number of cardboard storage boxes.

According to witnesses, a snow shovel was used to move feces and garbage into large piles.

"The strong odors coming from the house made it hard to breathe," Hendricks said. "I was gagging and dry heaving. You could smell the decomposition from outside the house."

Not only food was decomposing in the two-story house in suburban Danville – Myers had been decomposing alive in her own bedroom, with investigators finding maggots in and on her body before she was hospitalized.

Tipton's defense attorney, William C. Meyer II of Chatham, argued that in the crime scene photos, a broom, mop and steam cleaner are visible – a sign that Tipton intended to remedy the mess inside the house.

Prosecutors noted that Tipton's daughter, who will not be named due to her age, had undergone eye surgery one day before investigators arrived on the property. This would make the abundant presence of human and animal waste in the child's bedroom an inflated health concern.

"I've been in meth houses that don't smell that bad," Sargent is heard saying on bodycam footage shared with the court. "I cannot leave that baby in this house. What she's breathing in...you're killing yourselves."

Sargent also testified that the 5-year-old had asked her to retrieve a toy vacuum cleaner from inside the house, saying it was no coincidence that, "She wants cleaning toys."

Meyer would call Melanie Dalton, Tipton's longtime best friend, to the stand.

"She's always been very healthy," Dalton said of Tipton's daughter. "I never seen anything wrong in 10 years."

Dalton testified that she did not see any animal waste in the home during her solitary visit and that Tipton had babysat her own children for years without reason for concern.

The witness' credibility was shot after she admitted the lone visit to the home was nearly a year before the search warrant was executed, and moreso when she could not remember the address of the house, how many floors it was, where the kitchen was situated or where the child's bedroom was situated. Johnson would later suggest Dalton had never visited the house.

"Primarily, what we have here is distaste...not danger," Meyer said in closing arguments. "We have no expert testimony, we have no injury."

Johnson retorted that Virginia's child abuse statute does not necessitate injury. The code defines child abuse as reckless disregard for a child such that it compromises the child's life, health or morals.

Prosecutors also mentioned that they observed the 5-year-old entering the repulsive house seemingly unaffected, suggesting the conditions had been in similar disarray for so long that it had become the child's norm.

"That child was in danger," Judge Moreau said after ruling in favor of the commonwealth. Moreau needed no time to reach a verdict in Tuesday morning's bench trial.

County woman convicted of abusing daughter in nightmare home

CHATHAM, Va. — A Pittsylvania County woman was found guilty of child abuse Tuesday morning after a gruesome trial brought to light the house of nightmares that her 6-year-old daughter

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Defendant: TIPTON, SHANNON MYERS
Charge: FELONY HOMICIDE
Disposition: GUILTY
Disposition Date: 06/22/2021
Concluded By: TRIAL - JURY

Sentence Time: 30 Year(s)

Defendant: TIPTON, BRIANNA MICHELLE
Charge: FELONY HOMICIDE
Disposition: GUILTY
Disposition Date: 06/11/2021
Concluded By: TRIAL - JURY

Sentence Time: 18 Year(s)

Charge: CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
Disposition: GUILTY
Disposition Date: 11/29/2021
Concluded By: TRIAL - JUDGE WITH WITNESS

Sentence Time: 4 Year(s)
Sentence Suspended: 2 Year(s) 10 Month(s)
Program Type:
Probation Type: SUPERVISED
Probation Time: 2 Year(s)
Probation Starts: PROBATION TO BEGIN UPON RELEASE

 

[Metalfan]

OK I think I might skip some meals this week!

 

[Satanica]

I may as well have skipped it. I'm only just now eating at almost 1:30 due to some work b/s.

 

[Blizzard]

description of toilet-cesspool home

uh just what in the fuck

 

[Babs]

"When she opened the door, it was an overwhelming smell of decomposition, garbage, urine, feces and ammonia."

Eau de Odor toilette pig sty.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Foley catheters .. itself will need to be removed and replaced at least every 3 months .. and cleaned every single time you change them and once a day .. and a solution at home of part water or part bleach to sterilize it ..