Posted on 02/19/2017 6:26:23 PM PST by Gamecock
n Springfield Township, Ohio, one house lay quiet for months, its neighbors not noticing anything unusual or alarming, according to the Toledo Blade.
But inside that house, a 75-year-old woman was living in squalor, surrounded by feces and trapped in one chair for months.
According to police reports, Barbara Foster was finally rescued Thursday from her house, where she had been trapped for as long as a year, so long that her skin had begun to mold itself into the very fabric of the chair, per WCMH.
Foster, who weighed 550 pounds when she was rescued, was transported to a Toledo hospital, but as she was removed from her house by emergency responders, she screamed in pain because her bones were so frail, the movement caused them to break, according to WTOL.
Her current condition is unclear, per the Blade.
Police discovered Foster’s condition after a church volunteer who had been caring for her for a decade called 911 to say that Foster was “not acting herself,” per WTOL. The volunteer also told police he had not seen Foster anywhere but her chair since at least July.
According to local media reports, police and first responders needed to wear hazmat suits in order to enter the house, but the volunteer said that the residence has smelled the same since he first began helping her. WTOL, however, reported that the smell reached the sidewalk.
Multiple neighbors told the Blade that they had not seen Foster in years, with one couple who had lived in the area since 1995 saying they never even knew her name. However, WCMH interviewed one neighbor, Leirin Snyder, who claimed to be Foster’s goddaughter and said she knew Foster was a hoarder but was unaware of her condition. Snyder said she had not visited Foster in some time.
According to the Blade, police received two calls from Foster’s house in May, but no reports were ever filed regarding the incidents. The police are currently investigating the current incident to determine if any crime was committed.
**Police discovered Foster’s condition after a church volunteer who had been caring for her for a decade called 911 to say that Foster was “not acting herself,” per WTOL. The volunteer also told police he had not seen Foster anywhere but her chair since at least July.**
Church volunteer sounds like a dim bulb.
“...living in squalor, surrounded by feces and trapped in one chair for months.... weighed 550 pounds”
Does not compute. All the neglect and yet she could still eat all these months to maintain the heft.
God bless the men and women who have to do this kind of work! Takes a special breed.
at 550 lbs...SOMEONE was feeding her!!!
The church volunteer did it!
What was the “crime committed?”
In just 5 replies, FR has solved this mystery of a 550 pound neglected squalor woman who was trapped in her chair for months.
Something is not right here. Last seen July of 2016...Skin molded to chair. One has to urinate and defecate. Where did all of that go? Someone had to feed her in the last year no matter what she weighed.
Charges to come I bet.
she was probably 700+ before her long sit
About 12 years ago there was a thread about a woman who refused to leave the bathroom for months (years?) and her arse had fused with the toilet seat.
This happened before. A woman was so fat and sat in the same chair her skin grew in to the fabric. I think they had to cut a hole in the wall to get her, and the chair, to the hospital.
Oh my gosh.
Right. She must have had an enabler ... they all do.
Pretty cool, eh?
On one hand....
“In Springfield Township, Ohio, one house lay quiet for months, its neighbors not noticing anything unusual or alarming, according to the Toledo Blade.”
Then later it says....
“According to local media reports, police and first responders needed to wear hazmat suits in order to enter the house, but the volunteer said that the residence has smelled the same since he first began helping her. WTOL, however, reported that the smell reached the sidewalk.”
The smell reaching the sidewalk is not unusual????
Definitely the stuff of nightmares! Poor woman!
Foster, who weighed 550 pounds
They probably needed an 'only' in there after the 'who'.
Indeed. I was watching a show on TV a few nights ago about a 601 pound woman. The show focused on helping the woman get out of her situation. A doctor said there is always an enabler, who gives the food. In this case, it was a niece who said if she didn't help her aunt out with the wanted food, the aunt would just find someone else who would give her the junk food. They changed her diet to reduce some weight, did surgery to reduce her stomach size, and she lost several hundred pounds enabling her to go outside on her own for the first time in years. Real sad that people do this to themselves, becoming extremely obese. Mainly psychological problems.
The volunteer was hard of smelling.
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