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Updated: 10:28 PM Jun 1, 2010
Daughter Pleads Guilty to Abusing Mentally Ill Father
In one of the worst cases of elder abuse ever seen in our region, a daughter is now behind bars and her father is finally getting food and water.
Posted: 10:28 PM Jun 1, 2010Reporter: Randy Yohe, WSAZ News Staff Email Address: randy.yohe@wsaz.com; news@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE 6/1/10 @ 12 p.m.
PORTSMOUTH, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A Portsmouth woman charged with imprisoning her helpless, mentally ill father has pleaded guilty.
Ashley Looney pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to three counts surrounding the case of abuse of her father, Larry Looney. She pleaded guilty to failure to provide for a functionally impaired person, attempted abduction and probation violation, according to documents from the Scioto County Courthouse.
Looney was sentenced to spend four years in prison. She will be eligible for judicial release after the first year if she doesn't get into trouble and completes programs in a good or excellent level.
Detectives say in December of 2009, Looney locked and boarded up her 60-year-old father in a room where he was starved, beaten and bound -- left for days at a time, naked in his own filth.
ORIGINAL STORY 12/15/09
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- In one of the worst cases of elder abuse ever seen in our region, a daughter is now behind bars and her father is finally getting food and water.
Larry Looney got very little food and maybe a cup of water a day, and photos we received just skim the surface of the horror story.
Last Friday, Portmsouth Police arrested and jailed Ashley Looney on multiple elder abuse charges. Detectives say for about a year, she imprisoned her helpless, mentally ill father in a Scioto Trail home.
Police say shocked witnesses first discovered the abuse and took pictures. They finally reported that Ashley Looney locked and boarded up her 60-year-old father in a room where he was starved, beaten, bound and left for days at a time naked in his own filth.
Police say Larry Looney received $900 a month in Social Security, and Ashley cashed the checks. She has two small kids, and there's evidence they possibly were abused. They are now staying with caring relatives.
Scioto County Adult Protective Services workers say in the past year, adult abuse investigations similar to this have shot up by more than a third, and those are just the cases reported.
The charges against Ashley Looney include abduction, felonious assault and failing to provide for a functionally impaired person. Police say she acted disturbed when her father was removed from the home in October and denies doing anything wrong.
Latest Comments
You are totally ignorant! If you have no idea what her crime was then you shouldnt be taking up for her...she's crazy, just because her dad was mentally ill doesn't give her the right to abuse him!!!
hey jon.mr if u dont know what her crime is then u are just as bad as she is.did u help her beat him and starve him and take his money.all that out of love. you have a mental problem as well as she does.you are a poor excuse for a human being to be taking up for that witch. i could use some choice words but they wont allow it.
Her father is mentally ill. What was her crime? Everything she did was out of love people. You people can't get nothing right except eat too much and get fat. You are all going to hell.
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