KETTLE FALLS, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a bedridden woman who turns 106 on Wednesday is doing well in a Colville, Wash., nursing home after she was found begging for food in a filthy house.
The Spokesman-Review reports a deputy went to the home in Kettle Falls, Wash., last month looking for a man because neighbors reported his horses were starving.
The 78-year-old man, John Friedlund, was a caretaker for the woman, Frances Swan. When a deputy found her in a bedroom of the filthy house, she asked for food and said she hadn’t eaten in a day.
Friedlund says Swan had been fed but didn’t remember. He was charged Monday with criminal mistreatment.
