Her Parents Let Her Melt Through the Couch

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  • @TheMiseryMachine
    @TheMiseryMachine  2 ปีที่แล้ว +803

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    • @pz83ftw
      @pz83ftw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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    • @heatherdontcare
      @heatherdontcare 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I wish I could help you guys out....we've been dealing with ear infections and allergies in TWO of our dogs😖 We are in the thousands since January with 1 of them. It's crazy what we'll pay for their health!

    • @angelaa3732
      @angelaa3732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Get well soon, little cutie!!

    • @TheMiseryMachine
      @TheMiseryMachine  2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @Donnell Okafor So you think we're lying? Would you like to see screenshots? We have a whole stack of vet receipts over the past three weeks. Also pet insurance doesn't cover pre-existing conditions. If you know a provider that DOES cover pre-existing conditions, please link it to us here, because we need it badly (Edit: He later deleted his comment claiming we didn't have any vet bills)

    • @angelaa3732
      @angelaa3732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@TheMiseryMachine I am sure you have had such a hard time with what you are dealing with...I can't believe you still were able to put out content. I appreciate your dedication. Mad love!!

  • @alphabetsoup6837
    @alphabetsoup6837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7612

    Someone dying so gruesomely in a town called slaughter is something straight out of a horror movie.

    • @dalhousiekid
      @dalhousiekid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      And writers are probably planning the movie script right now. Pure nonfiction too.

    • @TheFoxybrown7119
      @TheFoxybrown7119 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      I was thinking the same thing. slaughter…. Why would the parents do such a thing? Rhetorical..,

    • @alpyki2588
      @alpyki2588 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      As someone from Louisiana, Louisiana has issues. Deep issues.
      On a lighter note, there is a village in Louisiana called Transylvania. There's also one called Waterproof.

    • @gamingforever9121
      @gamingforever9121 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@alpyki2588 Louisiana is perfect for horror fiction

    • @barneyronnie
      @barneyronnie ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Somebody had to say it😐

  • @MarFind203
    @MarFind203 ปีที่แล้ว +2160

    A mistake is missing an appointment or sleeping in...leaving a living person to rot is no accident it was a murder

    • @brianglade848
      @brianglade848 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Richard works at a furniture warehouse now

    • @tylerfynn4754
      @tylerfynn4754 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Death sentence for parents who were entrusted by God to care for them yet choose to neglect them 🥺

    • @daniellepore7960
      @daniellepore7960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If I declared them dead in the name of Satan rhen Im in a cult though right

    • @callithasmed8468
      @callithasmed8468 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tylerfynn4754 We need corporal punishment for people like this. No life in jail filling up a cell, no "corrections;" hang the bastards with a coarse rope.

    • @mixedmediaartgirl300
      @mixedmediaartgirl300 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Way WAY WAY worse than murder!!!! Torturing some poor soul to death for years on end in the most horrific way possible

  • @briellelarocca801
    @briellelarocca801 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +425

    12 YEARS?????? How do you, day in day out, just walk past your daughter in that condition EVERY DAY FOR 12 YEARS??? This is next level evil.

    • @KingStr0ng
      @KingStr0ng 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like how TH-cam defends them by deleting my comments. Such an evil corporation.

    • @KingStr0ng
      @KingStr0ng 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      These are not parents.

    • @KingStr0ng
      @KingStr0ng 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      These are not people.

    • @KingStr0ng
      @KingStr0ng 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Tired of being censored.

    • @Tiffani_AnnA
      @Tiffani_AnnA 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@KingStr0ngthe censorship is absolutely ridiculous. If it’s a duck should be able to say “hey it’s a duck”. Facts are facts. So yea, I completely agree with that comment. Actually ALL of you comments are dead on 🎯

  • @reiphas
    @reiphas ปีที่แล้ว +1557

    They didn't bring her to a doctor because... She didn't want to?
    Parents: Hey Lacey, I know you can't move or talk or anything, but do you want to see a doctor about your condition?
    Lacey:
    Parents: Welp, we tried. Nothing we can do now.

    • @Topdoggie7
      @Topdoggie7 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Like she had no choice.

    • @minawanderer8196
      @minawanderer8196 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      If you are locked in you only can tell people with the eyes(they have to hold a sign with the alphabet&numbers-not easy for them!).But i never believe that they asked her or that they really want to help her.They wanted to go on in life without her ill daughter-they are soo bad&evil people!

    • @electronicpizzaparlor
      @electronicpizzaparlor ปีที่แล้ว +25

      They must be lunatics...

    • @spiritellington4591
      @spiritellington4591 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      👍💯🎯

    • @Pak.v
      @Pak.v ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@minawanderer8196 maybe she did say no but in that situation you should still seek medical help

  • @laurajane4806
    @laurajane4806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3326

    After criminally neglecting her for 12 years, they leave her all alone, completely paralyzed, to go on a weekend trip out of town. I'd say that qualifies as a "reckless disregard for human life"/second-degree murder. They deserve life in prison, which is karmically what they gave Lacey.

    • @colleenknapp8626
      @colleenknapp8626 ปีที่แล้ว

      They deserve nothing less than death.

    • @mandydunn6484
      @mandydunn6484 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Well said .

    • @deborahward4140
      @deborahward4140 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They don't deserve life in prison they still would be getting treated much better than Lacey they deserve the death penalty!!

    • @robertlevine2827
      @robertlevine2827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know this isn't an option for second-degree murder, but what they deserve is the death penalty.

    • @lbo6050
      @lbo6050 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      I believe what they gave to Lacey is far worse than a prison life sentence. They still can walk, eat freely, get medical care, have entertainment etc. in prison. Lacey couldn't even speak.

  • @bruisersbeach4905
    @bruisersbeach4905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2617

    They didn’t bring her to a Doctor because “she didn’t want to go?!?!” If she truly had that diagnosis, how would she be able to protest care?! This is such a disgusting, horrific case of abuse. My heart aches for Lacey……💔

    • @B_Rainy
      @B_Rainy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +205

      I think they didn't take her to a doctor because there is a _lot_ more to their story. A happy, socially-adjusted, extroverted girl suddenly has a drastic personality change in her early teens, then is pulled from school and never seen by her peers again? That sounds like a classic case of ''maltreatment'' (of the SA kind) from one or both parents, beginning in her early teens. They got worried she would talk, so pulled her from school, and locked her away. These cases have played out like this so many times (just usually without the severity of the demise) that I'm quite frankly shocked that anyone is believing what they say about her being ''severely disabled'' etc. We only have _their_ word for that, and why would believe people who would do something like this?? They didn't want her telling anyone what they were doing to her, which is why they didn't take her to a doctor. :/

    • @berrylover
      @berrylover 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@B_Rainy makes me so angry and sad, she narrowly missed the window of “strange you don’t have some social media account or google result when google tells me you aren’t dead yet,” I hope her peers continue to come forward about their positive memories or actually any memories they have of Lacey. These parents deserve to be fully exposed, how horrific that the murder of their own daughter is a milder offense than what I think you’re correctly hypothesizing

    • @EJ-oc1ht
      @EJ-oc1ht 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Imagine being locked in and screaming with your eyes for help.

    • @heytam7162
      @heytam7162 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@B_Rainy Bingo! I would bet my bottom dollar she was sexually abused & tortured well before she was left to rot on that lounge. 😢

    • @DarknessValor
      @DarknessValor ปีที่แล้ว

      Talking about religion as though it helps is cringey as fuqqqq

  • @ThePhantomSafetyPin
    @ThePhantomSafetyPin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +358

    You didn't mention the most disturbing part of this case: She got so desperate she started to eat the couch in her final days. That's not something a person with Locked In Syndrome does, proving she did not have it. It's an excuse.

    • @Lalalaitzvannyyy
      @Lalalaitzvannyyy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Wait where did you find this out?

    • @hayleykiyokoisbae1776
      @hayleykiyokoisbae1776 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      If she wasn’t paralyzed why would she have layed that for so long

    • @twobabka
      @twobabka 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@hayleykiyokoisbae1776she may have been starved/dehydrated beforehand tbh

    • @sheesherwhiz3846
      @sheesherwhiz3846 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      @@Lalalaitzvannyyyin the autopsy it was stated that couch filling was found inside her stomach

    • @bumblebeerror9019
      @bumblebeerror9019 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      The reports from the crime scene indicated that her own feces were shoved into her face and chest presumably by someone else, so it’s possible that’s why they were in her stomach. :\

  • @taziao2165
    @taziao2165 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    "all children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children." rest in peace, lacey. i hope that you find happiness wherever you are now.

    • @marionvanrooyen5132
      @marionvanrooyen5132 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You are so right. May they rot in prison..maybe the death sentence is to harsh for them. Absolutely horrendous.

    • @santropez3833
      @santropez3833 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How about kids that kill their parents because they don’t wanna be told what to do??
      Like “finish your homework before playing with your friends”
      Do they deserve the parents they’ll then turn around and kill?

    • @datagamerbulby
      @datagamerbulby 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      theres that quote again

    • @alm852
      @alm852 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wtf@@santropez3833

    • @jasper.maxwell
      @jasper.maxwell 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@santropez3833You are one overthinker.

  • @mads597
    @mads597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2323

    I don’t think they made a series of mistakes, I think they made a series of very purposeful choices to abuse their adult daughter

    • @marthasimons7940
      @marthasimons7940 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      And they call themselves Christian. Shameful.

    • @kaylaschroeder1
      @kaylaschroeder1 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yes. Horrific, cruel, homicidal.

    • @bettyhutzell3438
      @bettyhutzell3438 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I agree 100 percent with your statement

    • @laurenmastroviti6543
      @laurenmastroviti6543 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Facts

    • @scarletweltz6847
      @scarletweltz6847 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Okay so I haven't seen it yet but they're adult daughter? If she's an adult how much can they be abusing her without her allowing it

  • @kath9188
    @kath9188 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2323

    The worst part of this is that the people that did this to her, were her own parents. The two people that were supposed to love and protect her. I can’t imagine the pain Lacey was put through. I hope she is resting peacefully.

    • @toriaalexander7160
      @toriaalexander7160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      If it wasn't their own daughter shouldn't happen

    • @awewhat2986
      @awewhat2986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I'm the lucky few childhood abused victims that survived parental abuse and neglect...but my body greatly suffered.
      At 14 on my bday I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and I had uncontrollable bloodsugars because they wouldn't get my medication on time and they did t really help teach me the importance of diabetes upkeep at that time I had already been suffering chronic depression and chronic anxiety but wasn't medicated or going to theraphy by then I had been self harming since i was 11. And because I never got treat ment for my depression and anxiety and never had stable blood sugars and they never got shoe supports for my flat feet. I ended up developing alot health problems at 17 but they never got me help I needed cuz my step mom just believed I was lactose intolerant but I wasn't able to digest Ramen noodles or cereal and yogurt. And she never got me testing Done so now I have several chronic mental disorders I struggle every day with suicidal and homicidal thoughts I have gastroparisis, arthritis,rethumatoid arthritis I'm going blind In my left eye and my right eye is starting to get worse. I also have fibromyalgia and my mental health affect my physical health and illnesses alot so I can't even work cuz it fucks with my anxiety cuz of my ocd and germ problems and it will make my fibro and gastro start acting up and so normally I'm in constant pain and puking up my guts and puking up blood sometimes.

    • @toriaalexander7160
      @toriaalexander7160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@awewhat2986 I am sorry

    • @awewhat2986
      @awewhat2986 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It really sucks the realization that your parents brain wash you into making you believe they know everything and are protecting you and that they know when your healthy and when your sick and only hit you because your doing something wrong that is bad behavior but they make it seem you'll become a drug abuser and whore for not getting them water or for not folding the clothes fast enough or because you didn't wanna do it at that moment

    • @awewhat2986
      @awewhat2986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@toriaalexander7160 and that's just the pg side of what all I had to go thru. My abuse started with spankings and to my pinky toe getting broken to jalapeño juice getting thrown in my eyes it really makes me wonder what would of happened to me if I lived with my birth mom because she was sex trafficking me at age 3-4 for drugs and then I got taken away from her to live with my dad...sometimes I wish cps would of just taken me cuz at least I wouldn't have to deal with ppl I actually loved and cared for abusing me right??

  • @kylieshaye6562
    @kylieshaye6562 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    Lacey had such a beautiful and warm smile. She deserved dignity. I'll never forget this case.

    • @elizabethd8147
      @elizabethd8147 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I absolutely agree that this case is unforgettable! I'm a true crime junkie and binge watch cases multiple times a week. I remember some cases and their broad outcomes but never remember and details or names. This case, on the other hand, details and Lacy's name have stuck with me. While every case is tragic, this case is an absolute gut punch! I cannot even begin to imagine the extreme horror that poor girl endured for so many years!! I can only hope and pray that her mental state was so diminished that she wasn't aware of the horrific abuse that was done to her. I have my doubts that her mentality was as bad as her parents say but that is my hope, however remote it may be...

  • @shayZcajun
    @shayZcajun 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    I grew up there. I knew Lacey. I knew her family. All the kids liked her parents. She was super quiet. Her parents were in the community a lot. But i definitely remember Lacey. I cant believe this happened to her. It made me sick to my stomach to hear about. I moved away from there 20 years ago.

    • @shayZcajun
      @shayZcajun 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      As a side note, I believe this was able to slip through the cracks because her parents were all about appearance and were fantastic at maintaining those appearances. No one suspected a thing. 😡🥺

    • @ayatosmilktea69
      @ayatosmilktea69 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      wait really?? 😨

    • @shayZcajun
      @shayZcajun 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ayatosmilktea69 absolutely true story.

    • @shariapurnell3013
      @shariapurnell3013 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was she as delayed as described in this video?

    • @shayZcajun
      @shayZcajun 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@shariapurnell3013 not when she was younger. She progressively got worse as she got older. Idk why. Not sure what her mental health was like for her. She was sweet and shy when she was younger and seemed relatively normal. She seemed to regress as she got older. I can remember playing volleyball with her. It wasn't like she got strange or anything. Just got 'quieter'. She stopped talking for the most part. Still seemed happy as far as anyone could tell. Just stopped talking.

  • @LDHardin
    @LDHardin ปีที่แล้ว +2008

    As a father of a child on the spectrum, I couldn't be the Judge for a case such as this. The sentence I'd deliver would be nothing short of the death penalty.

    • @chantelllovett4335
      @chantelllovett4335 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree👏 death penalty

    • @JaggedBird
      @JaggedBird ปีที่แล้ว +102

      As an uncle who is on it and has a niece with it, I say I'm the same. These types of people should never have been able to become parents.
      There's a saying that fits perfectly here:
      All children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children

    • @Lizzy-hw2pm
      @Lizzy-hw2pm ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think you need to be a parent/on the spectrum to know they deserve the death penalty

    • @gemma6426
      @gemma6426 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      This is mind blowing, how dare they use a person with special needs as an excuse for their own sick behavior, they are just trying to make excuses for themselves and show absolutely no remorse, I mean they were the ones who should have protected her, they are evil and If was the judge I'd do to them what they did to her, the only positive thing is that her suffering is over, fly high gorgeous girl

    • @gemma6426
      @gemma6426 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@JaggedBird I couldn't have put it better myself

  • @je.suis.prisci
    @je.suis.prisci 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1160

    I'm still disturbed 😳 by this story. They went to church often at that 🤨, my mother always told me that the devil goes to church too.

    • @Alykatblack
      @Alykatblack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Just because you go to church doesn’t mean you’re a Christian. What we call “church” nowadays is just a building when in reality the definition of church is a group of 2 or more people coming together to worship in the name of the lord. Not a building. It’s sad how many disgusting people go to “church” and absolutely despicable.

    • @cherylsmith4826
      @cherylsmith4826 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Church goers- sickening

    • @DennisMC1974
      @DennisMC1974 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      lot of narcissistic psycho people go to church just to Virtue Signal themselves

    • @markjackson3531
      @markjackson3531 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Alykatblack Acts are all that matters.

    • @cainmathewson1857
      @cainmathewson1857 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The devil created them

  • @OU812cheeto
    @OU812cheeto ปีที่แล้ว +223

    The minute I hear that somone is "church going," "god fearing," etc., I think "Uh oh." These are some of the most evil people in the world.

    • @hadassah356
      @hadassah356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      But, they’re also some of the kindest most caring people in the world, also.
      I feel so bad for this young lady. No church-going folks I know would’ve treated her in this horrific way!

    • @shornaxkayps
      @shornaxkayps 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Sometimes evil use church attendance and their supposed "God-fearing" ways to.disguise their true nature. Even the devil was good at one point and was also "God-fearing."

    • @fordmodelT1957
      @fordmodelT1957 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      The most dangerous people are often the most righteous.. when you believe you act in the service of a higher power you can do insane things

    • @fordmodelT1957
      @fordmodelT1957 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      On god frfr

    • @shosha101390
      @shosha101390 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Several studies have now shown that very religious people like this are actually way less moral than atheists. Numbers support this.
      Religion is only used to excuse violence and terrible abuse like this

  • @corinebaker4837
    @corinebaker4837 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    I saw this same story on another channel. I took care of my husband the last 5 years of his life. He was not on the spectrum but he only had one foot so he he was either in his wheelchair or his hospital bed. I changed his diaper numerous times a day and checked his behind to make sure he wasn’t getting red or sores. I can’t even believe that these parents could stand the smell.

    • @annaafave
      @annaafave ปีที่แล้ว +25

      He was very lucky to have you Corine, ❤️ rest in peace to your Husband.

    • @princessromanov
      @princessromanov 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I have been doing home care for the past twenty years and I know how quickly wet skin can break down. I also know what you mean about how could they just ignore the smell of their daughter decaying for years. I take pride in doing what I can with whatever the clients have to wash them up and do whatever I can to help protect their skin. Just thinking about Lacy laying there makes me so angry

    • @Girlofpages
      @Girlofpages 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I took care of my grandmother for most of a decade after she broke her neck. She had to be changed every 2-4 hours and I had to roll her and position pillows to prevent pressure sores. Plus bed baths. Changing bedding. It's horrific that they neglected her like this. She deserved better. I wish someone had intervened on her behalf.

  • @RowanWarren78
    @RowanWarren78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +823

    If a person is literally decomposing in front of you, suffering from acute mental illness, you don't simply say "well, she refused to go to the doctor". You get a commitment order. They were legally in charge of her life. They had the authority to do that. They chose not to. It disgusts me to hear them pretend to have been unable to help her. I think this was sinister and deliberate. I'm honestly surprised her parents called 911 when she passed. They had to know they would be held accountable. Again...sinister.

    • @ahenwaa5133
      @ahenwaa5133 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm also surprised they didn't decide to just bury her in the back garden since no one ever came looking for her.

    • @cryptogofer3080
      @cryptogofer3080 ปีที่แล้ว

      "acute mental illness"??? she suffered from Locked In Syndrome, she couldn't move or speak so how could she refuse?

    • @RowanWarren78
      @RowanWarren78 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cryptogofer3080 exactly

    • @thisislame2207
      @thisislame2207 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a feeling its because she was Autistic, people these days still look down upon autistic people and wouldn't surprise me if these shit stains that managed to call themselves parents in the first place disowned her or something like that because of her condition. But who am i to say? I wasn't there and I never been to Slaughter in my life to get a feel of the populace opinions there.

    • @welsh.truth.dragon3914
      @welsh.truth.dragon3914 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed. 100% guilty of MURDER! This is MURDER !

  • @marciplantsflowers
    @marciplantsflowers ปีที่แล้ว +257

    It is EXTREMELY CLEAR that her parents did this intentionally

  • @jasmineservais8689
    @jasmineservais8689 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    The man in the beginning that asked the dad if she had moved out, gone to college or married like the other kids before her, then knowing what happaned. It really knocks the reality of what could have been…

    • @angelarigido7161
      @angelarigido7161 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HE SHOULD HAVE INSTANTLY CALLED THE POLICE...* I N S T A N T L Y! A *friend would always FORGIVE YOU seeing you care so much.

    • @FC-hj9ub
      @FC-hj9ub ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ​@@angelarigido7161 call the police for what? He didn't know she was dying on a couch

    • @cherrelleg8276
      @cherrelleg8276 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@FC-hj9ubright. What would he tell the police. I talked to my neighbor and they said their daughter was doing fine.

    • @kjmk31
      @kjmk31 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He , like many people , had a “gut feeling” and didn’t listen to it. But it’s not his fault, the father was probably convincing enough.

    • @jadeclarissapradoortizfigu592
      @jadeclarissapradoortizfigu592 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The police can do wellness checks if someone is worried about not seeing a neighbor in a while.

  • @DaniDiva182
    @DaniDiva182 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Eye for an eye. 12 years sitting in your own filth, unable to communicate, gradually dying in more and more pain, followed by the horror and indignity of melting into the couch owned by the people who's responsibility it was to raise her and help her thrive. That's what I think the sentence should be...

    • @PancakeTheKat
      @PancakeTheKat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not just 12 years, LIFE. They need to rot in prison for life.

  • @Manticorn
    @Manticorn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1313

    This hurts, man. I'm also autistic and Lacy and I had a lot in common. I feel like we could've been friends.

    • @mememe217
      @mememe217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Y’all would of been BEST FRIENDS ❤️

    • @MangoMagica
      @MangoMagica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I am too, it hits close to home for me for that reason.

    • @madeliner1682
      @madeliner1682 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Same. I'm very scared of being taken advantage of in general life because I can't sense when someone is sketchy or has ill intentions, and even after working on it I still have very little ability to say no to people

    • @natashavanzyl2815
      @natashavanzyl2815 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Me too, on the spectrum, I had catatonic episodes, when anxiety got too much... i got out, but the pain in my heart for the abandonment, and the how clearly my 'family' made it clear that my life does not matter, I am so sorry for Lacy, stay safe everybody it is wild and dark world out there.

    • @alexandercarder2281
      @alexandercarder2281 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Me too, I have Aspergers and PTSD and struggle being around lots of people n public. I would have watched Disney with Lacey and laughed a lot and do drawings and sing our favourite Disney songs together (I know so many by heart)

  • @5amH45lam
    @5amH45lam ปีที่แล้ว +489

    My god, I couldn't have conceived of such a tortuous, cruel fate. 12 years locked in your own body, paralysed yet fully aware, as your parents allow you to literally rot away. Poor girl. She looked so amiable in her photos. RIP Lacy. May you now be in eternal peace and contentment. You deserve nothing less.

    • @HomeisJax
      @HomeisJax ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If she hadn’t been to the doctor since 16yo, how did they know she had locked in syndrome? Or did I miss a crucial part when I went to get a drink?

    • @douglashutchison8497
      @douglashutchison8497 ปีที่แล้ว

      May lacy rest in peace with our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Such a terrible thing she had to go through with her parents .

    • @7speedybimp79
      @7speedybimp79 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HomeisJax The detail of the diagnosis of that is irrelevant, the physical state that she was found in (covered in insects, covered in her own excrement, wasting, literally rotting) is completely impossible to ignore and inexcusable. Her parents wouldn't have needed to known about that diagnosis to see that she is in a state of urgent illness.

    • @manda-panda
      @manda-panda ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HomeisJax yes they said she had locked in syndrome, I guess it was discovered during autopsy altho I don't know how since it's neurological. I also wondered how in the world they'd know that, but I guess if she wasn't paralyzed she'd have at least been able to move enough to not melt into the couch.

    • @manda-panda
      @manda-panda ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, its mortally appalling! She was paralyzed, but she still felt pain. There just wasn't anything she could do about it. Only able to move her eyes around, hoping that one day someone would see her & rescue her. They even left her skin burning from being covered in urine & feces from head to toe. They never even cleaned that, it is just so thouroughly vile & evil. I assumed they'd beaten her so badly that they paralyzed her until it said she had that locked-in condition. Sick, sadistic demons is what they are.

  • @kristensmith614
    @kristensmith614 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    As someone said on another true crime video: juries should be offered free therapy after a case like this.

  • @lindseywalters901
    @lindseywalters901 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Lacey was one of my very best friends from the second to the fourth grade at Brownfields. And, yes, she was very sweet. I moved out of state after the 4th grade. I absolutely cannot believe this has happened. We're pictured right next to one another in our yearbook. I had to dig it out when first seeing the story because it was so very hard to believe this was the same Lacey. Absolutely devastating. Mrs. AND Mr. Fletcher..... nevermind, deleted the remainder of that comment. Much love, Lacey!!!! Fly high, baby girl!!! Forever missed and never forgotten ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @teeeff8337
      @teeeff8337 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      when you knew her as kids, was she “severely autistic” ? They claimed she had social anxiety and was severely autistic. If she was, she would have always been. It’s not something that gets more severe with time. So how did she go from functioning to helplessly stuck on a couch? This case is so sick and there’s so many unanswered questions

    • @WitchyBishy
      @WitchyBishy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@teeeff8337girls with autism mask well. They don't show the symptoms as readily as Boys.

    • @onettaviator5396
      @onettaviator5396 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@teeeff8337I mean, I'm not them, but as an Autistic guy myself...? She probably had some sort of medical episode, like a stroke or something, and THAT'S what had gotten her stuck on the couch.

    • @teeeff8337
      @teeeff8337 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ⁠@@onettaviator5396 Well, they said she had “locked in syndrome” but they doesn’t make sense either because they found couch cushion in her stomach, which means she was so hungry she was eating the couch. If she had locked in syndrome, the only thing she would be able to move is her eyes. They would have to have been giving her nutrients intravenously to keep her alive. They also claimed she was severely autistic and had social anxiety, so I was wondering if the person who knew her as kids noticed these things about her as they’re not really things that worsen with time so she would have always had them. At the same time of claiming she had autism, anxiety and locked in syndrome, the parents claimed she was of sound mind and chose to not leave the couch. Well which is it? I really hope this trial is allowed cameras and live streamed because I have so many unanswered questions and really want to see what the defense comes up with since it will have to make sense in a court of law and right now what the parents are saying, doesn’t make sense. And I’m curious to see doctors on the stand seeing if anyone actually had diagnosed her with autism, social anxiety and especially locked in syndrome

    • @onettaviator5396
      @onettaviator5396 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@teeeff8337 Yeah, I know. Thats why I'm probably thinking it was a stroke or aneurysm or something like that. Something that would fuck with you cognitively but at least let you eat.

  • @dejuhvu1793
    @dejuhvu1793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +832

    Her parents say she had “lock in disorder”. She never got diagnosed with anything because they never took her to a doctor! Pure evil!! I wonder if they received any benefits from the state for her too

    • @tiffanyclark-grove1989
      @tiffanyclark-grove1989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seems like THEY locked her in. No reason they couldnt have repositioned and bathed her.

    • @DanielleFoster.
      @DanielleFoster. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Very good question

    • @lisadempsey9259
      @lisadempsey9259 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for pointing that out! Lack of physical mental and emotional stimulation along with malnutrition devastated this poor girl

    • @B_Rainy
      @B_Rainy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      I don't believe she had any disorder at all. She was happy and well-adjusted then went through a drastic personality change and was pulled from school soon after. We see that same pattern time and time again in cases where one or both parents have suddenly started 'maltreating' (SA) the child. They didn't want anyone to know so weren't going to take her to a doc, and are lying to this day by claiming she was 'severely disabled' etc. She may have _become_ disabled (ie unable to walk properly etc, and very mentally unwell) as a result of what they were doing to her. But it was entirely _their_ doing. It wasn't due to any 'condition' inherent within her as everyone seems to be believing.

    • @queenbah1
      @queenbah1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@B_Rainy 💯

  • @BayouCouyon
    @BayouCouyon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +563

    The coroner said she didn't have locked-in syndrome, this was just one of the many excuses the parents used for the condition Lacey was found in.

    • @lilifel
      @lilifel ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Why did she stay on the couch 12 year if she could move

    • @BayouCouyon
      @BayouCouyon ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Water Bottle I don't remember exactly. It may have been WAFB but it was one of the Baton Rouge news stations if not several.

    • @BayouCouyon
      @BayouCouyon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lilifel because of the mental illnesses. And once she'd been there long enough she wasn't strong enough to move. Basically the same situation with over weight people, just in reverse. Just sad 😔. I have family that went to church with the parents and nobody ever had a clue as to what was going on.

    • @CarisstaRashele
      @CarisstaRashele ปีที่แล้ว +16

      So if she didn’t have that.., why didn’t she get up and move around?

    • @BayouCouyon
      @BayouCouyon ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CarisstaRashele because she was mentally ill...it sounds insane but if you haven't dealt with something like that it can get VERY extreme

  • @polinatalmeltzer450
    @polinatalmeltzer450 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I’m 100% disabled, and I took care of disabled people before my disability. This video is a nightmare. They deserve the same fate, sorry, I have no mercy in this case.

    • @alib1919
      @alib1919 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hope you don't mind me asking, but what is '100% disabled'? Do disabilities come in percentages? I'm just curious.

    • @polinatalmeltzer450
      @polinatalmeltzer450 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alib1919 , it’s ok) In Israel you receive disability status with one or two numbers in percents - physical or/and mental. With this comes your monthly payments etc. I have 100% of mental disability according to the government scale, which also means that I receive a pension and other reasonable help from them no matter if I choose to work sometimes if I feel I’m able to, or not, because I can’t work as much as healthy people do or keep a job for a long time. I’m 35, got disability 4 years ago after a horrible traumatic experience. I’m ok with questions, I volunteer in our local disability center where I previously worked and assist people who need help in the same situation.
      Have a nice day!!

    • @alib1919
      @alib1919 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@polinatalmeltzer450 Thankyou for explaining ☺

  • @Lalalalalalalallalalalalalaa
    @Lalalalalalalallalalalalalaa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    She has such a beautiful smile. I wish I could have been her mama. As a person who’s going to go through a lot of struggling to become a mama it hurts on another level to see neglect and abuse from parents. I want a baby so bad and I can’t even imagine how happy me and my husbands life would be to wake up and see her gorgeous smile every morning, even if we would have to take care of her for her entire life.

    • @mousefriend8635
      @mousefriend8635 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This might be a bit of a strange comment, but I just wanted to say as an autistic person who was unwanted and abused as a kid, your comment made me feel really warm and happy inside! I truly hope you're able to get a child. Wish you were my mom growing up! ❤

    • @Lalalalalalalallalalalalalaa
      @Lalalalalalalallalalalalalaa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@mousefriend8635 me too! As a kid growing up with Asperger’s and Paranoid Schizophrenia it was hard for me since my parents do not believe in mental illness. I’m glad to know it made you happy

    • @shelleyg218
      @shelleyg218 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A HUGE HUG FULL OF LOVE FOR MOUSEFRIEND AND LALALALALALALA ❤️🌸🤗🌷💕🥰😘🤗❤️💕🌸🙏🥰🌷💕🌸❤️🥰😊

    • @Lalalalalalalallalalalalalaa
      @Lalalalalalalallalalalalalaa 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shelleyg218 AAH IM SO LATE TO REPLY BUT TY 🌸🌸🩷🩷

  • @lindseygoblinluver
    @lindseygoblinluver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +838

    My dad was in a rehab for breaking his hip we found out from him they would fuss at him for using the bathroom on himself because they had to clean it. From that day forward until he left that place me and my two sisters stayed every day all day and night with him until he came home to watch for abuse and neglect. People are cruel out there please please if you suspect anything happening to anyone around you like this, tell someone protect those who cannot protect themselves.

    • @punkybrewstar83
      @punkybrewstar83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      There is an epidemic of elderly neglect, especially within institutions. There is a lack of independent regulation, supervision and consultation. Abuse and neglect is extremely common, and it is an international issue. In New Zealand and Australia we have this same situation. It is particularly prevalent amongst the elderly that have dementia, or other issues that make it difficult to communicate. It is an issue, not properly being addressed anywhere, and the elderly population is increasing and the problem continues to escalate.

    • @lindseygoblinluver
      @lindseygoblinluver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@punkybrewstar83 exactly punky so right!! Just like with animal abuse there needs to be more done to help the elderly and animals and punishment needs to be worse!!

    • @justhuman9547
      @justhuman9547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      God Bless Y’all

    • @Justynbrodsky123
      @Justynbrodsky123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s not my problem! That’s your problem, not mine! You had three meals delivered, sorry! So guess what I have no money, and I am broke! So you can threaten me all you want!

    • @naelyneurkopfen9741
      @naelyneurkopfen9741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Justynbrodsky123 wth!?

  • @sammygirl6910
    @sammygirl6910 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1042

    This breaks my heart. My daughter is on the spectrum, high functioning like Lacey. I'd die for her. The parents deserve at least 25 to life. Probably more. I'm devastated by this case.

    • @connievasquez1158
      @connievasquez1158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      No no no the electric chair emmediately

    • @Thismomcan
      @Thismomcan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@connievasquez1158 nawwww das too easy they deserve to ROT N JAIL

    • @quimmole477
      @quimmole477 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@connievasquez1158 Nope, confined to the couch for 13 years just like their daughter. They deserve to feel everything they inflicted upon their poor daughter and worse.

    • @jeynjohnstone5917
      @jeynjohnstone5917 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're a sweet❤❣️

    • @felixargyle20
      @felixargyle20 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      The term "high functioning" is actually very harmful to our community. Plz look into why we don't use it 💕

  • @sweetcaroline68
    @sweetcaroline68 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Praying for y’all and your furbaby. I can’t imagine what you’re going through, still being in mourning. My cats are my kids and I would do anything too!❤️

    • @TheMiseryMachine
      @TheMiseryMachine  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She's doing good! We had a bit of a scare over Thanksgiving, but she bounced right back. She's a tough little lady.

  • @alisonalibongo3177
    @alisonalibongo3177 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I work with severely disabled children, one of the children i work with went through this. Being abused & more. People make me sick…

  • @user-gi3gu5di6q
    @user-gi3gu5di6q 2 ปีที่แล้ว +707

    I just want to say that it has been debunked that Lacey had locked-in syndrome and it was falsely reported by the Daily Mail--an unreputable tabloid--and other news outlets just ran with it. The coroner confirmed she did not have it and she sadly passed with faeces/couch stuffing in her stomach. If she had locked-in syndrome she would not have been able to open her mouth to eat.
    RIP Lacey, you did not deserve to be treated that way. Thank you both for covering her case w/ respect for the victim as always.

    • @mleh2512
      @mleh2512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Yes, thank you for this comment. Lacey’s situation and difficulties were in no way ‘locked-in syndrome.’

    • @TheMiseryMachine
      @TheMiseryMachine  2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      Hey there! Could you link us a source other than the New York Post that debunks the locked-in syndrome? We can't find any other source that debunks it, and we usually like to confirm at least three sources with information when possible. This is unfortunately the problem with covering recent cases, even official sources can get it wrong time and time again.
      Thank you so much for the kind words! ❤️

    • @user-gi3gu5di6q
      @user-gi3gu5di6q 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@TheMiseryMachine The Daily Mail also clarified it in a follow-up on May 4, but it looks like they used the same quote as the NY Post article, so not much luck on that front. I'm completely willing to be wrong on this though, just IMO seems incredibly unlikely, so if anyone here in the comments has a follow-up that says something different with a doctor confirming it, please please let me know.
      For what it's worth, her mother claimed Lacey ate half a sandwich and some Cheetos before her passing (which we know was untrue due to what I mentioned in the first comment) but even by her mother's own narrative she couldn't have had Locked-In Syndrome. But this is just my own thoughts and nothing concrete.
      Hopefully we can all get some more clarification soon, though.
      Again, appreciate the work both of you do and thank you for covering Lacey's case among many others and providing a voice for those who cannot speak out about the terrible things they faced.

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-gi3gu5di6q She might not have had Locked In Syndrome exactly but she had to have had some kind of paralyzing condition, otherwise she never would have stayed on that couch and allowed that to happen to her...

    • @feelthejoy
      @feelthejoy ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Yep there wouldn’t have been a commode next to the couch if she had it either bc she wouldn’t have been able to use it if she was completely paralyzed

  • @myishenhaines1706
    @myishenhaines1706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +694

    Wait wait….I just heard about this story, but I thought that she had been dead for decades. I did not know that she was alive during the bug infestation and melting into the couch. MY god. My god. Poor woman. I hate this world.

    • @mialovesdoingnothing
      @mialovesdoingnothing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Same!! I was shocked 😲😲

    • @Justynbrodsky123
      @Justynbrodsky123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s not my problem! That’s your problem, not mine! You had three meals delivered, sorry! So guess what I have no money, and I am broke! So you can threaten me all you want!

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alive and unable to do anything about the insects writhing on her and knowing her parents COULD help, they give enough of a damn to keep the rest of the house clean, but will let her die in conditions that were reserved for the worst criminals of ancient times... I hope they get treated like the criminals they are now...

    • @amyb7823
      @amyb7823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@Justynbrodsky123 ??

    • @BluKittenExtensions
      @BluKittenExtensions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@Justynbrodsky123 dude...what? Lol

  • @mamamia-vh5zf
    @mamamia-vh5zf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thank you for talking about the rates at which people with disabilities get abused. The numbers are astoundingly high and the abuse is often done by the people in charge of others wellbeing.

  • @briarrose5208
    @briarrose5208 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Life without possibility of parole. Best wishes for your sweet kitty.

  • @GradKat
    @GradKat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    It’s dreadful to imagine what that girl’s final months / years were like.

    • @daniellelopez3342
      @daniellelopez3342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It's so sad. She was probably so scared and confused why her parents who should have protected her just let her suffer. Heartbreaking.

    • @We_Are_All_Vultures
      @We_Are_All_Vultures ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Years upon years

  • @OxyPox
    @OxyPox ปีที่แล้ว +495

    I am autistic and disabled. I cannot imagine what Lacey went through. She seems like someone 8 would've been friends with. Rest in peace, Lacey ❤️

    • @kidbuumajin7315
      @kidbuumajin7315 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I’m autistic to I hope she rest in peace too. I hope she’s in a better place. 😢 it breaks my heart.

    • @P2_grim2
      @P2_grim2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No you’re not

    • @VAMPIMPZ
      @VAMPIMPZ ปีที่แล้ว

      @@P2_grim2 because disabled autistic people dont exist?

    • @spinosaurusstriker
      @spinosaurusstriker ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@P2_grim2 i believe him, he has a jojo's picture.

    • @JuliaRobyn14
      @JuliaRobyn14 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@P2_grim2 it is never your place to comment on whether other people have disabilities or not. That is extremely inappropriate.

  • @alyssamcfarland4747
    @alyssamcfarland4747 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh Lacey, it haunts me to think that it could have been me had I been born to different parents. I'm so sorry baby.

  • @sheilaamundson7721
    @sheilaamundson7721 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This was totally intentional. They gave up on her and didn't care anymore. They had to have walked past her many times everyday. I can't believe anyone can treat another human being the way that she was treated. They deserve as much care as they gave her.

  • @Drod.riguezm
    @Drod.riguezm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +477

    I work with people with disabilities and the level of abuse seen on a daily basis which is excused and justified by parents/teachers/other adults is incredibly depressing

    • @amyb7823
      @amyb7823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Really? That's awful. :(

    • @margolane8529
      @margolane8529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@amyb7823 yes, and the systems in place to protect people with mental illness, disabilities, and the elderly are severely lacking and underfunded.

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      excused by parents? you mean parents excuse the abuses done by others against disabled?

    • @Drod.riguezm
      @Drod.riguezm ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@lynb2039 yes that’s what I am saying. We have to teach parents what’s not okay

    • @dannisteinmeier6139
      @dannisteinmeier6139 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That is so sad, disgusting and evil.
      Are government has no proplem sending our tax dollars to other countries where most have corrupt governments so any help is never seen. And yet here we have the homeless, disabled, mental issues, many neglected poor children, veterans suffering elderly suffering, the list is so long. And our tax dollars are not there for them, our own citizens.
      It's pur evil.

  • @pinup_charmer3348
    @pinup_charmer3348 ปีที่แล้ว +735

    Just because a person is labeled "pillar of the community" doesn't mean they're good people. I hope Lacey gets justice and those monsters get put away for life. No judge or jury could absolve them.

    • @linzwalker436
      @linzwalker436 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      And the community was small so not much competition to be a pillar

    • @sarahwebb3125
      @sarahwebb3125 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      And church going means nothing as well. Plenty of monsters sit on church pews. I hope this young lady gets the Justice she deserves!

    • @FunkyTomo
      @FunkyTomo ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The worst types are always those who look and act "respectable". Always.

    • @callithasmed8468
      @callithasmed8468 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I have found, being born in the late 80s, that a lot of older generations' conceptions and standards for trusting and heaping praise on their neighbors comes from a somewhat naive faith in the goodness of people who conduct themselves a certain way. I suspect this has a lot to do with not having said perspective shaped by modern media and psychology, and its exposure of peoples' real lives.
      It's totally bizarre to me that some folks still accept others' gestures at face value. Literally anyone you meet could be involved in any number of questionable deeds or lines of thinking. You don't assume, but I personally like to keep that in the back of my head.

    • @Natka1469
      @Natka1469 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      So many incidents where the person who is pillar of the community becomes the killer if the community

  • @Bettinasisrg
    @Bettinasisrg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The pain she must've been in and not able to tell anyone! I can't imagine! That's what makes me so sad.

  • @droyston3631
    @droyston3631 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Did i just hear that the charges were dropped? How could anyone. I can't even imagine.. I don't even have any words for this this is so sickening

  • @Yourmom-yz7qw
    @Yourmom-yz7qw ปีที่แล้ว +634

    As a mom with 2 autistic kids, this is heart breaking. These guys can't always speak for themselves and sometimes they rely completely on other people to make sure they are keeping up on their health. For a parent to allow their child to suffer like this.. they are compete monsters. 💔

    • @galaxyglow5187
      @galaxyglow5187 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I myself am autistic and hearing this story makes me so sad!

    • @lisawik7234
      @lisawik7234 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      This is a bit off topic but my friend watches an autistic child and 3 of the child's siblings while the parents work. She said the autistic child is the easiest! The boy doesn't bicker with the siblings. He's very routine and plays nicely by himself. As long as he's got his routine on point he's super easy!! What a sad story.

    • @roballman5726
      @roballman5726 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My 5 year old step daughter of which I've been her step dad for 4 of those years this video breaks my heart in so many ways

    • @EverendeverGroup
      @EverendeverGroup ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Interesting, though horrific, story. But why this huge tangent about your cat? Really???

    • @indiatastic
      @indiatastic ปีที่แล้ว

      Dang your genetic line needs to die out. Stop selfishly breeding.

  • @trishaann1616
    @trishaann1616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    They had no problem coming up with $60,000 in a few hours to bond out but they couldn't pay somebody a few hundred to take care of the daughter they choose to bring into this world.... If convicted they should be given a drug that makes it impossible for them to move and left that way until they know what it would feel like to suffer to death.

    • @juliagreen423
      @juliagreen423 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      School was free childcare to them, and when school stopped, their child care did too…

    • @jerritrahan9149
      @jerritrahan9149 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That would be matching the punishment to the crime. That would suit me fine.

  • @plfigon
    @plfigon ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The people that was supposed to care for her, betray her. Such a sad history! We will remember you Lacey! ❤

  • @lizette87
    @lizette87 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I am a mother to a girl with non verbal autism, and I can’t even begin to imagine how anyone could do this to their own child! This is murder with prolonged torture! If I was in charge of giving out the sentence, it would be the brass bull or something similar.

  • @lovescatsforever
    @lovescatsforever ปีที่แล้ว +304

    This poor girl’s suffering 😢 so horrific. Hope the parents get the maximum sentence possible!

    • @jordanowens6253
      @jordanowens6253 ปีที่แล้ว

      They should serve their sentence on a couch. Just like their daughter had to.

  • @MrFruitgum
    @MrFruitgum ปีที่แล้ว +765

    One thing a hell of a lot of these stories have in common is "They/He/She were a well respected pillar of the community and always attended church" These are the people who who are Murders - Rap*st - Kidnappers - Child abusers - Torturers and the list goes on. When will society learn just because someone goes to Church and is helpful does NOT mean they are NOT a monster. Evil is real, look around you, then stop and really look around.. NOW tell me what you see. Horrific isn't it!

    • @ann-mariebaker118
      @ann-mariebaker118 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Mr Fruitgum totally agree.

    • @cindibarton1167
      @cindibarton1167 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Yes I know-that's why they're hiding behind their disguise

    • @dls5690
      @dls5690 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Tis true! Evil is no respecter of persons or religions.
      Unfortunately cases like this one and others truly make religion and Christians look so bad.
      You can find evil anywhere!

    • @dls5690
      @dls5690 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      But God won’t let them get by with it, they will get their just reward in hell.

    • @zanarenak938
      @zanarenak938 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Some bad people hide under a church. But God know their hearts and will punish them. 95 percent of Christians live on another❤️❤️and live by what Jesus taught. Love him, love your neighbor and forgive one another. Theses people that did this to their daughter are evil and dark. You can find that anywhere. I hope our court system and God punish them severely they spend a whole life in prison without ever getting out. And I hope they suffer like she suffered. But never blame it on society or churches or anything like that. There was something definitely dark and sick inside those parents head👹👹

  • @salster
    @salster 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It is very necessary for every video to include an emotional support cat 😺 Please don't stop including them ❤ Sending all the best to Prada

    • @ouwebrood497
      @ouwebrood497 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The care for the cats is such a chilling contrast with the lack of care for Lacey by her parents.

  • @Apacheflower27
    @Apacheflower27 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This video is a year old but I wanted to give my best wishes. My childhood cat has diabetes, and before we knew, he had multiple seizures. It was so scary, and I held him otw to the emergency vet. 2 years later and he is still a healthy, happy old man. Best wishes for you guys and your kitties

  • @westealzplaydosnakes5561
    @westealzplaydosnakes5561 2 ปีที่แล้ว +468

    They basically slowly watched their daughter deteriorate, torture... therefore they should receive the death sentence...I'm a little blown away they were granted bail or deemed not flight risk's, that might have to do with their establishment ties.

    • @melsonfredkitching8548
      @melsonfredkitching8548 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly

    • @ashleycantrell289
      @ashleycantrell289 ปีที่แล้ว

      why give them the easy way out? make them suffer in solitary and rot in prison like they did their daughter

    • @Hiddenplace414
      @Hiddenplace414 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      They are always letting monsters off easy but punish people for weed. Justice system failing us

    • @westealzplaydosnakes5561
      @westealzplaydosnakes5561 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hiddenplace414 unfortunately near the top of the justice institute's, especially when you look into the origins of intelligence agencies such as oss/cia/fbi are mearly an extension of knights of Malta and templar's,it's what their designed to do,prey on its own communities...same setup as the mafia and military industrial complex...of coarse I don't like to broad brush, there's good people in those fields,and that's why they remain at lower levels as a form of compartmentalization... couple good examples without going all over the place with detail would be mentioning under known info such as the mafia being labeled a conspiracy theory in the 40s... only to find out wallstreet helped fund their rise in the states...and the upper brass of these agencies control top figures in their own lucrative ways of extortion, blackmail etc....as a good example,if your familiar with whitey Bulger of the winter hill gang...it's proven he was experimented on as a kid in mk ultra... other notable names that fit the same eugenics experiments as children were names like the unibomber, Charles Manson in boys town...the phoenix project conducted in Vietnam (assassin program that's responsible for 28,000 brutal murders of women and children just so happened to become famous serial killers when they returned from duty,some tied to intelligence front cults, some became hitman for the mafia aswell as worked for other criminal street gangs..names like Arthur shawcross, Wayne Williams and Richard Ramirezs cousin,whom introduced Richard to the church of Satan aswell as taught him skills to enter houses and kill silently...this projects top level operatives also taught the origin leaders of a vicious Mexican cartel known as the zeta's.... anywho,I kinda hopped around there...I could talk forever about this subject of high level corruption but I'll leave it at that lol.

    • @westealzplaydosnakes5561
      @westealzplaydosnakes5561 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Hiddenplace414 one last mention that actually meshes this topic of serial killers, Mafia and police crossover would be the new info on the long island serial killer case.... there's a good doc on this on the peacock channel,I have it archived if interested...it's called unraveled...the new info details how a guy was looking through people's cars for change and didn't realize that he just so happened to do it to the Suffolk county police Chiefs vehicle,the cops name is James Burke...said guy who stole from vehicle grabbed a bag full of DVDs and one in particular had a white label...so he starts playing it and its a snuff tape of several masked men torturing the prostitutes the disappeared from the lisk killers prowling area,well of coarse it's best not to take a thief's word right? But here's where the story gets substantial... somehow Burke knew where this guy was,lived with his mother,so Burke and a couple assisting officers stormed this guy's house, Burke threatens him and takes em into custody to interrogate, Burke's tripping about the disk, threatening to rape and murder the guys mother,tells em that nobody will take the word of a thief drug addict,other officers witnessed this and testifyed on behalf of said thief, Burke gets fired and that's about it... prostitutes confirm that Burke was a frequent user of their services and a very scary violent man,other police find bondage material in Burke's possession,this story is said to tie to long island elite aswell...anywho that's just an overview.

  • @phoenixfire2578
    @phoenixfire2578 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    I had sepsis & osteomyelitis after a hysterectomy and it was incredibly painful. I'd pass out from the pain bc it was so bad. I can't imagine what this poor woman went thru. Rip.

    • @silverwiskers7371
      @silverwiskers7371 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1st° Unimaginable horror inc. Is what she had to live thru..

    • @Blackkitty32
      @Blackkitty32 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You're a strong woman! How are you now? X

    • @phoenixfire2578
      @phoenixfire2578 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Blackkitty32 thank you. Although the infection caused permanent damage to my spine, I'm grateful that I'm still here and things weren't worse.

  • @alanleemaxwell831
    @alanleemaxwell831 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Throw the key away... monsters plain and simple, so sad ..😢

  • @kpax2066
    @kpax2066 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I cant even imagine the absolute indifference it must take to ignore something like this happening in your own house, with your own daughter.

  • @rorydunne1218
    @rorydunne1218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    She looked so happy and pretty. God bless her. What despicable people could do something like this. 🤢😔

  • @thesehandsart
    @thesehandsart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    This is torture, full stop. I think we need to update our laws to reflect this type of severe and torturous "neglect".

  • @catherinesuarez8711
    @catherinesuarez8711 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Horrific!! The parents are nothing but monsters…so sad

    • @elifguldemirtas8393
      @elifguldemirtas8393 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I KNOW! This is one of the most insane case I have heard.

  • @kellykim3684
    @kellykim3684 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is the worse case of neglect I’ve ever heard of omg her parents are literally monsters. Wow she suffered so much knowing and feeling what’s going on to her but not able to communicate her pain

  • @jesusnova5329
    @jesusnova5329 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    How can anyone neglect their own child like that? Lacey was at their mercy. I took care of my disabled mother that was on dialysis for 17 years, I couldn't do enough for her. It wasn't a bed of roses, and I got so tired because no one helped me. But all in all my mom was a sweetheart, the lifting is what really did me in regarding my back. She couldn't help because she lost the use of her legs. But you just don't leave a person sitting on a sofa like they did to this poor baby. RIP Lacey God bless you!

    • @loopy1159
      @loopy1159 ปีที่แล้ว

      God bless you
      What a horrible thort

  • @sarahbowman7566
    @sarahbowman7566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    As an adult who learned that I am autistic only 2 years ago at age 41 when thanks to the crown court system I was not only diagnosed but even greater I was saved from my abusive parents who I had never realised were 'those' kind of people.... I want to say a truly heartfelt thank you for covering this case and the topic in general.

    • @questioneverythingtv
      @questioneverythingtv ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How did you get tested? Asking because I too feel I need to be tested.

    • @LittleWing1985
      @LittleWing1985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@questioneverythingtv asking as well because I can't find anyone that feels its important to diagnose an adult, only children. As if adults with autism don't exist or need assistance functioning too.

  • @krissnider-anderson350
    @krissnider-anderson350 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard. After hearing this and what the Dr. went through I just lost it, God bless her. This hurts my heart.

  • @angel-nv7jk
    @angel-nv7jk ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can't even begin to imagine the horror of the poor lady being locked in her own body and being forced to endure such abuse and neglect as she slowly deteriorated but couldn't do anything about it....

  • @lindsayrose26
    @lindsayrose26 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    They deserve a stronger sentence, Lacey was there on that couch for over a decade. Her parents did not care, Lacey had a life, and she was so deserving of living. If her parents took the proper care, she would be thriving rightnow. This is heartbreaking

  • @mememe217
    @mememe217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    As your explaining her… autism, delayed growing, etc etc
    Reminds me of my daughter whom is also on the spectrum. She’s 20 & will be graduating this June from high school!!!!! AND I LEGIT COULDN’T BE MORE PROUD OF HER SHE HAS OVER COME SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! Soooo much
    - love u JEWLEANNA Marie 💕

    • @serpicopiu3591
      @serpicopiu3591 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Congrats!!!

    • @elizabethsmith955
      @elizabethsmith955 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Congratulations to her! I don't know why but I'm so excited for her!

    • @youmadeafuckywuckygetinthe2525
      @youmadeafuckywuckygetinthe2525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      AYE JEWLEANNA! ✨✨✨

    • @ellylopez1
      @ellylopez1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Congratulations 👏🎓

    • @devilinav7494
      @devilinav7494 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Congratulations to your girl on a job well done! (And to you, too! We know you did your part!) 💕🎓

  • @Sweet_Tooth_Art
    @Sweet_Tooth_Art 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for including the info about disabled people and abuse. I myself am disabled and I exercised medical neglect, financial, emotional and mental abuse from my mother for 24 years. I thankfully am far away from her now and have been for years I have a wonderful husband and support system, but many aren't as fortunate as I have been. It's important to talk about these things. ❤️

  • @cierreascranton8477
    @cierreascranton8477 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely love listening to both of you talk on these stories you both make them so interesting and you're very good at what you do thank you for sharing their you stories these names these memories and keeping their name out there to be loved forever and remembered forever

  • @BaDazai
    @BaDazai ปีที่แล้ว +291

    4:32, how were the parents able to stay in the house with the smell alone. I'm having a very hard time picturing how this all went down. Why did they call the police saying she couldn't breathe when she was clearly dead and decomposing?

    • @reanathompson8389
      @reanathompson8389 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That’s why I had to rewatch this video 3 times because I was very much confused. I don’t know how people are so cruel.

    • @kina18
      @kina18 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Well if you're dead decomposing you can't breathe so they were right about that part.

    • @Vinny_Havoc
      @Vinny_Havoc ปีที่แล้ว +28

      It's the banality of evil, really. True evil is, sad to say, incredibly banal.
      We like to comfort ourselves by imagining some mustache twirling villain, swirling his cape, and grinning madly with frenzied eyes, or perhaps some meticulous beard stroking mastermind plotting sinister plots while chuckling to themselves about how great they are...
      When in truth, evil is... normal. That's an extremely harsh and unnerving reality people don't want to face because it calls into question a lot of reassuring things, comfortable masks, we wear to keep society pleasant.
      But if you realize that evil is banal, you realize that any otherwise pleasant person could be capable of the most horrific acts of cruely, which calls yourself into question as well of course, and then when those evil deeds are done the otherwise normal person doing them fails to even realize the evil.
      That people can do such horrific things and not recognize the horror of it is somehow a lot more scary than someone doing the horrible things and cackling while lightning strikes in the background about how horrible it is. We like to imagine people can simply recognize evil inherently, and realizing that oftentimes we can't is an existential horror difficult to put into words. it's one of the harshest lessons learned shortly after the Nazi regime collapsed.. and just as quickly forgotten by most.

    • @cindibarton1167
      @cindibarton1167 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah I don't understand that either homicide detectives can't even handle that smell of rotting flesh how are they able to

    • @BaDazai
      @BaDazai ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@kina18 usually when you call 911 saying the victim can't breathe they'll run you through chest compressions whilst they wait for paramedics. Were the parents ready to do chest compressions on a decomposing body? Never mind an ambulance was unnecessary. Ambulances don't carry dead decomposing bodies, the police and coroner office do. There's a chain of unnecessary events when you claim someone is simply not breathing when infact they're already decomposing. 😰

  • @luffyduffy7817
    @luffyduffy7817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +504

    This has to be the worst case I’ve heard on in I don’t know how long I just can’t imagine what that poor woman went through
    Isn’t it always the “pillars of the community”? Maybe we should be keeping an eye on all of them

    • @TheMiseryMachine
      @TheMiseryMachine  2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      It's true. It's not uncommon for people in some position of power or status to use it as a smokescreen to hide their heinous actions behind.

    • @stormfischerr
      @stormfischerr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      as the hosts of the podcast And That’s Why We Drink say, “pillar to killer”

    • @sammieskeleton3339
      @sammieskeleton3339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      There was a case of a wee tiny 12 week old baby called Sterling Koehn , it was horrific his so called parents let the baby starve rot and die alone in pain in a swing chair facing a wall in a hot room . poor wee child died so bad . I hope there is a hell for monsters that do these evil things ,breaks your heart to hear the evil that happens .

    • @dalhousiekid
      @dalhousiekid 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stormfischerr Great motto

    • @samanthampiercy
      @samanthampiercy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      “The coroner also denied a report that Lacey had suffered from a rare neurological disorder called locked-in syndrome. “I don’t know where that term came from or what source it came from. In all my years as a practicing physician I have never heard of that term.”
      This was posted on May 4, 2022 via the New York Post.

  • @lesliedegnan
    @lesliedegnan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I appreciate all of the hard work and research you both do for the videos. I hope Prada gets well soon!!! I love seeing your kitty in your videos.

  • @T0rnii
    @T0rnii 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i remember when this case broke and i couldn't find as much info as you guys found on who she was in life. thank you so much for all this dilligence.

  • @B_Rainy
    @B_Rainy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    It honestly makes me wonder if there was a _reason_ they kept her locked away and isolated, and I think people are reading way too much into the parent's explanations that she was 'severely disabled'.
    She was socially well-adjusted, then had a drastic personality change before being pulled out of school. We see that time and time again in cases where a child is being 'maltreated' (of the SA kind) at home.
    The parents were genuinely very scared of anyone finding out what they'd been doing to her, so locked her up and left her to rot (and the SA maltreatment probably continued for a long time). Now they are saying ''oh it's because of how disabled she was'' but we only have _their_ word for that, and why are any of us taking the word of people who would do something like this?
    They are still protecting their own skins, and know her body was too deteriorated for there to be any proof of the years of SA.

    • @Lissa11638
      @Lissa11638 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I AGREE WITH EVERY WORD YOU SAID 💯!!!! Lacey's existence was more horrific than
      what is being reported, at the hands of her OWN sperm donor & egg bearer!

    • @Jepse89
      @Jepse89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Makes sense

    • @CalipsoCareline
      @CalipsoCareline 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree, what if she became paralised after being beaten in the head 😕😕 cause, okay, she had "mental problems" but she was social active, she would go to school and Interact, and right before having this lock in syndrome, her behavior changed. It doesn't seem coincidence for me.

    • @Anonymous-54545
      @Anonymous-54545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Totally agree. For all we know they injured her in such a way that she couldn't get up.

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look dude I'm not gonna deny that SA is completely plausible but this girl definitely had a condition that caused paralysis...

  • @azuredystopia3751
    @azuredystopia3751 2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Absolutely shocking. May this tortured soul and all victims rest in peace.

  • @renoia3067
    @renoia3067 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    She looks like such a sweet young lady in all her pictures. I'd've loved to take her shopping and do make-up with her. Rest In Peace, Lacey Ellen. You were an angel in that house

  • @leftoverpizza1146
    @leftoverpizza1146 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Its so scary as myself im autistic and I know 100% that if I was in a situation like this, where being neglected like this. All those medical issues would become so overwhelming I would very likely also become mentally paralysed too. Poor girl deserved so much better.

  • @charsuniverse8720
    @charsuniverse8720 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    Such a light sentence, they left her to get to that state for 12 years 🥺😳 absolutely horrific. Also side note, who names a town Slaughter? 😳

    • @kitkatmelon
      @kitkatmelon ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I'm thinking the same thing like if you name a town "SLAUGHTER" you're asking some bad shit to happen

    • @holdupits420
      @holdupits420 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's was a ranching town therefore lots of cows pugs were slaughtered there and that's where the name came from

    • @samanthaphillips2547
      @samanthaphillips2547 ปีที่แล้ว

      What was the sentence i didn't catch it, pls?

    • @pinklight
      @pinklight ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's retired now, but our family doctor was named Dr. Slaughter. Still can't believe he decided to go to medical school and use his real name as a physician. 😅

  • @shannonsullivan4858
    @shannonsullivan4858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Have you two heard about the case of Eli Hart? He was a 6 year old boy found dead in the trunk of his mother's car recently. Poor Eli was just returned to his mother from CPS. This is so sad. I know it's hard to cover these cases bc of TH-cam policies. Thank you for all you two do! 💕

    • @DanielleFoster.
      @DanielleFoster. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I heard something about this.
      I think there needs to be laws that you can turn your child over, no matter the age, without repercussions. It's ok to leave babies in safe boxes at the fire station. It needs to be OK for any age child. If parents simply can't do it, they need to be able to turn their children over without worrying they'll be in trouble. I think, maybe some of these awful cases would not happen. Idk, it's just an idea. Something has got to change somehow.

    • @shannonsullivan4858
      @shannonsullivan4858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DanielleFoster. I agree so much with this. Great comment. 😊

    • @Andys61724
      @Andys61724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Some people aren't meant to have children. As parents we're supposed to do anything to protect our kids. These people make me sick. There's way too many stories like this

    • @bigredswife4646
      @bigredswife4646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@DanielleFoster. yes I’ve been saying this for years!!!!
      I understand that parents are meant to be responsible for their children however sometimes a parent simply isn’t capable of taking care of their babies and I truly believe that those parents wish or at least think about surrendering those children if they were allowed too without repercussions… I feel like if it wasn’t such a taboo issue and if we changed the laws regarding it that it would absolutely make a difference I just don’t know if it would possibly backfire in any way tho ….

    • @shannonsullivan4858
      @shannonsullivan4858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Andys61724 I agree. It is happening way to often anymore.

  • @amberduenas1959
    @amberduenas1959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What a beautiful adorable kitty in the background

    • @Dorvin55
      @Dorvin55 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And a perfect name for a cat. Bean... foe they have beans.

  • @vanguardgaming1779
    @vanguardgaming1779 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My childhood cat named Linus was also a diabetic so I understand the amount of care needed to take care of a cat who is diabetic. My cat Linus passed away sometime when I was nine or ten. Rest in peace Linus, I love and miss you.

  • @DeviantMotives
    @DeviantMotives 2 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    The thing that makes this one of the most horrific cases that I’ve seen is that having locked in syndrome by itself would drive a person insane because you’re aware of everything that’s going on but you can’t move anything that is the ultimate torture. Now just imagine just being left on the couch in one spot with your legs underneath of you your legs cramping up you can’t do anything about it you’re itching you’re bleeding you’re hurting you can’t do anything about it and you’re like that for years. And to make matters worse being infested with bugs. That is the ultimate hell. I saw one other case where the girl was tortured beyond anything that anyone can imagine. I think this is probably the second worst case I’ve ever seen as far somebody being tortured. She may not have been beaten and had anything else done like that but the pure fact of melting into the couch being fully aware and not being able to do anything about it, it’s just the most horrible torture that I can think of. She probably stopped eating so that she could die. God bless and rest her soul

    • @dweebicusmaximus
      @dweebicusmaximus ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I don't think she even had it. She hasn't seen a doctor in 20 years and there appears to be no proof of a diagnosis

    • @persephonerulestheunderwor5188
      @persephonerulestheunderwor5188 ปีที่แล้ว

      She didn't have locked in syndrome, Her parents lied. If she did, she would not have been able to smear herself with her own waste or eat the foam on the couch found in her stomach.

    • @samisam3780
      @samisam3780 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@dweebicusmaximus if she did have it then her parents fed her the couch and her own waste.

    • @cozmicdoodles7167
      @cozmicdoodles7167 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@samisam3780 That's what I was thinking and just makes it so much worse. If she really couldn't move at all, there's only one other way those things could have gotten in her stomach, those people are absolutely vile and I hope they rot in prison for this.

  • @defletcher2902
    @defletcher2902 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I don't know how the parents could have not known their daughter needed medical care. I can't imagine her sitting on that sofa day after day watching her parents go about their life and being ignored to such an extreme. :(

  • @annagarrett2453
    @annagarrett2453 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Prayers for your babies!! I wish i could contribute more than good vibes and prayers! Please keep us updated ❤️

  • @alisonalibongo3177
    @alisonalibongo3177 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These people don’t even want to call them parents! should be put through the same thing. RIP dear angel

  • @rosierain3398
    @rosierain3398 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    This is sooooo sad. My grandma died of a bone infection at the base of her spine which can happen sometimes with people who are bed ridden, but when she was experiencing that she was in hospice and on the maximum amount of morphine possible and she still was in excruciating pain. I can’t even imagine the suffering Lacey went through without any pain relief or medical attention. I pray that she will be comforted by Spirit 💜🙏😇May all love surround her

  • @lindsey9958
    @lindsey9958 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Put them individually into one of those sensory deprevation rooms and leave them there, they deserve to have their guilt drive them insane to the point of breaking

    • @gregorycalhoun3788
      @gregorycalhoun3788 ปีที่แล้ว

      The only problem with that scenario is that their actions clearly show that they were incapable of feeling guilt, otherwise this would have never happened in the first place.

  • @barrykennethdaniel7411
    @barrykennethdaniel7411 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Rest in peace, beautiful lacey, fly high your pain is over now! You will not be forgotten, I hope I see you in heaven one day & I'm sure they will rot in hell. I'm so sorry we couldn't save you sweethart, but we will make sure they pay for what they did.

    • @zackmccrea4731
      @zackmccrea4731 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wish I could have saved her I'm autistic and this is just heartbreaking

  • @arcticyasmine4954
    @arcticyasmine4954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love when the cats make their presence known! I love your vidéos but sometimes i get anxious in the middle so when they meow it makes it better immediately ❤🐱

  • @bodhiswayze1892
    @bodhiswayze1892 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    Oh God, if the doctor was affected like this I can’t even begin to imagine what this poor girl went through. I’m so sorry that you went through this at the hands of your “parents” RIP beautiful girl….

    • @rudra62
      @rudra62 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not just any doctor - a CORONER! That's the person who does autopsies on a drug addict smeared all over the road, corpses found after being in the hot sun for 2 weeks and eaten by cockroaches, people who are decapitated or riddled with bullets, and on and on.
      This was a few levels of "horrible" above and beyond any of that.

    • @angelarigido7161
      @angelarigido7161 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have seen MANY DECOMPOSED BODIES in service with the CAF on 2 tours of duty. I CAN'T IMAGINE what this would have looked like. A human mummification! You guys out there haven't a clue..and never would want to. During the Gulf series, we had come across a young girl, (12 yrs old), who'd been raped and tortured for years by her husband, *56 years older than her. The body when examined was so expired, it took a very long time to find a possible cause of death. It was determined her body had been there on the dirt floor, sitting cross legged for 3 months in its current condition. The girl was literally a mummy, and when she was took out of the sandstone dwelling and moved...OMF! You really can't imagine. I dream about her still.
      Our medical staff/examiner at the time, was able to determine she was raped repeatedly until death for years, probably since her husband was able to start having intercourse with her around 4-5 years old, and had been starved, physically abused and neglected her entire life. The time of death was determined by the skins colouration, bands of black necrotic to the lightest skin colour tissues, *where the decomposition patterns started on her flesh from the ground up. (She was given to the husband for a wife from the cradle, and her family got a great sum of money for her).
      The body/pseudo skeleton, weighed only 39 lbs. Her hair was a snarl in one huge lump filled with head lice, and the 19'' headscarf trapped inside of the clot her hair was, wasn't even detectable until the hair was took off the corpse. Her ankles were BOUND with another scarf the same colour. She had so many fractures, our medics asked him "So what happened"? The husband said ,""with purpose"", he ""BROKE her calf bones, ankles, and toes"", then positioned her in a cross legged position, "so as the body healed, she'd never get up and walk again". He said "it was the best choice for a happy union, because she was DISOBEDIENT", and she was ''causing'' him ''health problems always running away".
      The country I was serving in, didn't allow for the arrest of the husband, as he *OWNED his wife, and could do ANYTHING he wanted to do to HIS PROPERTY. She was totally VULNERABLE to him, whatever care he gave or didn't. There were no criminal offences available to charge him with. Abusing your wife/wives was 100% legal, and socially acceptable. They DID have laws, where the WIFE could be stoned, or hung, IF the husband *THOUGHT she was cheating, stealing, swearing to God in his house, having evil *thoughts of sex with another man, or watching him have intercourse with another of his wives...THIS considered a *grave crime LITERALLY..UNLESS she was welcomed to watch. His wife IF ACCUSED of watching, had to be able to prove she had permission to do so, or it was a death by stoning. IF your husband was using another wife in YOUR BED, it is the husband's property to with as he liked. This man had another 3 wives.
      We had to get *PERMISSION from the husband to have the girls body as a gift in order to retrieve it. The husband also collected the sum of $136.65 as a DOWER to trade his wife for the money. In this country you have to pay for the right to a dead body, even if you're a relative. The girl's family would have had to pay to attend the funeral of their daughter. The husband told me, (and 9 other CAF soldiers), that he was going to CELEBRATE the life of his dead spouse by having a party for *HIMSELF, with his other 3 wives. He told us he was PROUD of the service she'd given HIM. The husband prepared A *GOAT FEAST, to honour his 12 year old dead abused wife. FURTHERMORE, he told us HE "WAS HAPPY" that his remaining wives "would not be *killed, because they had never ran away from me".
      I wanted to throw up and strangle him all at the same time.
      ALL life must be respected...and to the people commenting and taking JOY in the name of the town this sweet kid was tortured to death in...I SAY GO SERVE YOUR COUNTRY IN THE UKRAINE ATM..and you'll come home MATURED and CAPABLE of understanding WHY humans should be better to each other.
      *FOREVER.
      Good bless all the brave service men and women serving in the Ukraine and abroad.
      *A shout out to PPCLI...you big BULLIES!

  • @ananyaneralla5382
    @ananyaneralla5382 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    "We didn't drive her to the hospital because she did not wanna go" ??? Since when did parents start listening to their kids when they are sick?? Here if I sneeze more than 3 times within an hour, my mom will be force feeding me some cold relief concoctions and egging on me and dad would be ready to pull out his car. They will not hear a word I say. And I am a medical professional myself. They will hear none of it. This is sad. Lacy must've been in so much pain and so lonely. It's heart breaking 💔

    • @oooh19
      @oooh19 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sneezing doesnt mean you should go to the hospital that's over the top!

  • @taylorcrespo5631
    @taylorcrespo5631 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope your little bean is feeling better! ❤️😊 she is just the cutest. I love when she makes herself known 😂😂

  • @sherriesmith2587
    @sherriesmith2587 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dear God.....have mercy on this wicked, wicked world.

  • @lovingmayberry307
    @lovingmayberry307 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    "Left to Rot." Hope they rot in jail.
    RIP Lacey 💙🙏

  • @virginiafry9854
    @virginiafry9854 ปีที่แล้ว +504

    Locked in syndrome doesn’t just happen - it is usually due to a lesion around the vasculature around the brain stem - Alexander Dumas described it as “the corpse with living eyes”.
    I personally have seen such a patient - however, he was also unable to breathe on his own.
    I very much doubt that Lacey had this condition in its true form, and would conjecture that she had retreated into her own world as a way of tolerating the emotional abuse from her parents.

    • @kilogram064
      @kilogram064 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I used to take care of a young lady who had Locked in Syndrome as a result of an automobile accident. Sure she was in a nursing home but she had round the clock care. Whenever I worked in the section where her room was, I would start my shift by making sure that she was changed, clean and dry because I knew that it would be a while before I could get back in to tend to her. This story just sickens me to no end. How could anyone, let alone someone's parents allow another human being to just waste away and die like that??? They should get the maximum sentence allowed by law.

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 ปีที่แล้ว

      Man, considering how bad reality was for her, I really HOPE she managed to mentally check herself out of there...

    • @heidijohannes4271
      @heidijohannes4271 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Well, the explanation of the locked-in syndrome is the only thing that made sense to me when I questioned how could she just lay there for 12 years!.. like why didn't she get up or why couldn't she get up??

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@heidijohannes4271 There are many forms of paralysis and many causes, Heidi. Most people don't think it was Locked In Syndrome because that would have been complete full body paralysis. I and many other people think that at least her legs were paralyzed, or else she might have had an injury that never healed right that kept her from walking/crawling away from the couch. I have no doubt there must have been some physical reason she couldn't get away, even if it wasn't Locked In, but her parents had so much sick control over her, I can't imagine they gave her many opportunities either. That is assuming they didn't inflict the injuries on her themselves to KEEP her from going anywhere...

    • @pamelabeyers7121
      @pamelabeyers7121 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@heidijohannes4271 It doesn't even matter what she had, they made it worse. You still keep people clean & reposition then. And if you have a heart maybe some physical therapy. Sad thing is is she would have .been eligible for all this including a home health. There's just no excuse. Animals don't even treat there young like this! They make me sick &I hope they get the max.

  • @lauraklaassen951
    @lauraklaassen951 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is beyond horrible! What a monsters are the 'parents'. I can't even listen to what happend to here. She seems so beautiful and sweet.😢 Hope those parents rot somewhere without food or drink.

  • @ClammyHorrorShow
    @ClammyHorrorShow ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hearing the way she was found it is horrifying, melting into a piece of furniture and infested with bugs and bodily fluids. It’s terrible. Rest in piece lacee.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I cannot express how much I don't understand how something like this could happen... Like seriously... This is the saddest thing to think about her situation. Yet her parents went on like nothing was going on, like no one existed.... Things don't just get how they did in a short period of time. That's long term neglect of basic needs and basic care... So sad..

    • @mememe217
      @mememe217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I can’t either…… 😢

    • @amberlinmchugh8115
      @amberlinmchugh8115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Me either. Maybe it just became normalized and they didn't force her and it just escalated. So wrong.poor girl

    • @Justynbrodsky123
      @Justynbrodsky123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s not my problem! That’s your problem, not mine! You had three meals delivered, sorry! So guess what I have no money, and I am broke! So you can threaten me all you want!

  • @MizBritt8ny
    @MizBritt8ny 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    This sadly reminds me of the Debbie Leitch case where the mother left her daughter in bed knowing she had disabilities and couldn’t help herself. This world is horrible 🤦🏾‍♀️

    • @absolutelyridiculous6743
      @absolutelyridiculous6743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Oh gosh, yes. That was beyond deplorable as well.

    • @susanmccormick6022
      @susanmccormick6022 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      MizBritt8ny:It's not Gaia,it's the vermin that inhabit her.And yet to call a human an animal is an insult.

    • @devilinav7494
      @devilinav7494 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@susanmccormick6022 you have a point there. A lot of animals are kinder than some "people".

  • @CheqLights
    @CheqLights ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Endlessly sad. These people certainly had the money to send her away to a clinic where she would have gotten adequate care. If they couldn't or didn't want to deal with her, it would have been so easy for them to find an alternative for her where people would have respected and cared for her. I can't ever fathom their mind states while they just let her daughter die. Their daughter! The small cat moments in between were welcome breathing pauses. Prada is such a sweetheart. This video is from 11 months ago, I hope she's doing well (gonna go looking for updates now). Thank you for your quality content!