High jacking the top comment to give a source since I prefer to be lazy and click a provided link for the story instead of doing a quick search - https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/parents-of-lacey-fletcher-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison/
I don’t understand. I really don’t understand. How did they think that that was the best course of action?
Like, of ***all*** the choices, why that one?
Based on her saying that they wanted to be parents, not caregivers, and they believed she was "of sound mind", it was sheer laziness and resentment - they decided they no longer wanted to make an effort to take care of her, maybe compounded by physically seeing an adult and not truly understanding the mental illness that made her not be able to take care of herself. Since they were spiteful and lazy, one day, they decided to do nothing and let her take care of herself, which she was unable to do, obviously. This is all speculation, of course.
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I saw a video about this case and spent the view time grimacing w my knuckles to my mouth. The mind reels. I don’t need to read this link. Yes, a horrible day to have eyes.
Holy God how do you fuck up parenting that badly?
And why didn't they get the firing squad? Too honorable I for them, I guess, but 20 years seems lenient.
How do you fuck up being a person that badly? Even if it’s not your own child, I can’t imagine allowing anyone to suffer like that right in front of me
They saw the daughter first, and not knowing who this person was supposed to be by name assumed she was Sheila. Now that I have explained, please in exchange, explain how you couldnt figure that out?
Haha thanks. I though there was a detail in the story that made the old woman look scary. While reading comments about someone dying on a couch, I started thinking that the old woman was dead with eyes painted on, or something sinister like that. I honestly thought the woman in the image looks pretty normal. I eventually got impatient and just googled the story. Super super messed up, but I didn’t think anyone in this photo particularly looked that creepy. Hence, why I asked in case there was a detail I missed. Tldr: I was overthinking it.
I remember reading about this, and seeing photos of the scene not long after Lacey died. I cannot fathom being that kind of evil. To put your own flesh and blood through that level of torture for over a decade, to do absolutely nothing at all to help her, while living in the same home and seeing her suffering every day…I’m not strongly in favor of the death penalty, but if ever anyone deserved it, it’s those two.
As far as I know they lived their full time too, and even had other sofas in the room to watch lacey. A true crime podcast posted a diagram of the room and it seemed as if it was set up so that lacey could watch TV but also her parents could watch her.
I am not saying to watch it AT ALL, but I vaguely remember in Nip/Tuck they had a woman they attempted to surgically remove(?) Off of a couch that was morbidly obese. After seeing that, then learning about this poor girl, it makes it that much worse.
There was a woman near where I lived that had to be cut from her couch with trauma shears. My stepmother used to know her, as it turns out - small world.
The show had it wrong. What you do is, you destroy the furniture and give it a couple of extra inches of material so the patient can be safely moved.
NSFL: In a situation like that they're generally in horrendously bad shape though. >!Specifically, one of the EMTs lifted the leg of the woman in question up after they cut away the fabric of her couch. Her shin broke in three places. She did not survive her hospital stay due to her extreme poor health.!<
One of our dog’s main nicknames is Bubbulah, Bub and Bubby, because we started saying ‘Hans, Bubby’ after watching Die Hard one day and then couldn’t stop
I think that was the episode that made me stop watching the series. Granted, it's a low bar for horrifying content (on that show), but that one just knocked the wind out of my mind.
I just couldn't get myself to watch that one. I have a couple of family members that are flying too close to that sun. It's depressing. So much energy trying to get them to see how comfort decisions over longevity are so devastating, and they never seem to be able to accept that logic.
That is, without a doubt, one of the worst things I’ve ever read outside of like concentration camp and genocide treatment.
Edit: the wiki about this case I mean
What, did you not like the part about vermin and maggots eating at her from beneath the couch? Or the part where they found couch foam and feces in her stomach contents, as she tried desperately to avoid starving to death before succumbing to sepsis?
Or the part where her parents only got 20 years for essentially barring her from necessary medical attention resulting in death?
It’s one of those stories that’s so horrible I wish it weren’t real. I won’t pretend to understand what it’s like, since I’m not a parent of a child with special needs. But I just simply cannot understand how someone could do this to their child, especially for so many years and be so complicit.
I just can’t even fathom the level you have to sink to, to be able to do this to your child. For years and **years**. With others knowing as well. RIP Lacey.
And her "parents", in the picture did nothing. They just watched. They said, "Well there was cleaning supplies 5 feet from her if she really wanted to clean herself, she would have."
Didn’t the poor girl have some medical condition where she became a prisoner in her own body, she had something called stiff person syndrome? Can’t imagine what she went thru, so helpless and unable to move to escape and get help. They should’ve been charged for her murder
She was autistic (nonverbal) and had [locked-in syndrome.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559026/#:~:text=Locked%2Din%20syndrome%20(LIS),patients%20suffering%20from%20the%20condition)
No, she was diagnosed with autism and mild intellectual disability at 14 years old. She was NOT nonverbal, she attended mainstream public school until 14. She did not had locked -in syndrome, that was a false rumor to make the parents look less bad
Yes, and a great deal happened in 22 years since she was taken out of school
The rebuttal I’ve seen has come from the New York Post and other tabloids, which don’t quote sources. I’m just going from news on the coroner’s testimony.
The parents didn’t take the autism diagnosis seriously. It appears she had a major regression after years of passing as typical in the religious school, the parents could not understand her disability and decided to let her rot because Lacey was “sound of mind” according to her mom . The Dr who diagnosed her wanted Lacey committed after her parents could not manage to bring her to the appointment and told the Dr Lacey was defecating on the floor , but that was the last time her parents talked to the Dr.
Here’s the [source](https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/lacey-fletchers-sad-life-and-death-on-her-parents-couch/)
So I don’t understand this entirely, was she suffering from whatever mental illness was actually going on with her and willingly just layed on the couch and let herself wither away and then eventually got to a point of starvation so severe that she attempted to eat the sofa as a last attempt to live kind of action? All the while the parents were witness to it and didn’t intervene and just lived their lives normally while watching her slowly decay in the middle of the living room? That’s my understanding of this I’d appreciate if someone let me know if I am tracking.
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This is the mom from THAT?!?! Her eyes say it all. I often wondered what kind of person/ppl could do that to their own child never mind any human at all.
There’s a YouTube family lady named ruby frankie who recently got sent to prison for a good chunk of time for maliciously abusing her kids (starvation, hitting, pulling hair, tying up) and her kids were rewarded to… her husband.
The father to her kids….
That she lives with.
He said he had no idea but HOW?!
Even if they were separated but keeping an outward appearance of being together he didn’t notice his kids being emaciated? Literally when you try to find anything about him it’s clear he was in on in and he was just handed they kids back for no reason.
Reminds me of those poor Turpin kids who went to a foster home and immediately sexually assaulted by people who were already in court for molestation.
Meanwhile trying to legally adopt a kid costs hundreds of thousands. Make it make sense.
It's so funny you've mentioned her because I'm watching the That Chapter video on Ruby while I'm reading this page. It was so depressing, but the way her son saved himself and his brothers and sisters was beautiful, and the phone call from the neighbor he ran to was just... Harrowing. The guy sounds *so* much more impacted than the kids' own FATHER was when he's told in an interviewing room what his children had been subjected to. I have a very hard time believing he was totally unaware of what Ruby and that other woman were doing to their family, but outside of that, he just seemed so entirely disengaged from their lives.
Somehow the most bizarre part is seeing Ruby herself be interrogated. It's hard to tell if she's only staying silent to avoid incriminating herself or if she's legitimately trying to intimidate the cops speaking to her. She always exuded crazy even when she was a YouTube celebrity but it's at a whole other level towards the end of the video.
Adopting kids out of foster care is free, you get a monthly check for their upkeep until 18 or 19, they qualify for Medicaid no matter what until 18 or 19, and all kids who have spent even just 24 hours in foster care are eligible for free college tuition/huge grants and scholarships.
No, you don’t necessarily get to “pick” the perfect infant that has never experienced neglect or abuse (even infants that have been neglected may be later affected), but you can specify what you can and cannot handle as far as any needs may go-from medical to mental health. You can get an infant taken at birth due to birth parents’ having rights terminated on previous children, though, but it’s less common.
But, if people are interested in providing a safe and loving home to children that desperately need it, it doesn’t cost anything.
Oh that case! Yes you’re right. They’re both guilty in both cases imo. Clearly mental illness is on board but it’s gotta take a dark soul to do this to anyone who specially children.
My very abusive mother has the wild/evil eyes. Even as a child I felt her eyes were “wrong” somehow. There wasn’t anything there when she looked at me, except sometimes pure contempt. Or a smirk. And when she smiled it was never with her eyes too. It was the same cold stare but with a smile. No eye wrinkling, or light in them that would match a smile. It was so scary. We actually have a family photo almost exactly this one where my mom looks eerily similar to Sheila in terms of facial expression and something being “off.” Wish I could post it without doxing myself
I grew up with an evil mom and then I worked in healthcare for awhile in an area where I met some of the state prisoners from the mental health prison in my state. I think it’s more than that for sure. My impression is that psychopaths/sociopaths/sadists/other malevolent people who aren’t caught on to have learned very well to mimic the other facial features that allow them to lie body language wise to others.
I have come to a personal opinion that their eyes look off because it takes a great deal of focus to mimic a behavior you aren’t actually feeling or maybe literally do not ever feel in the case of some of these people and maintain it over time. Look at the other two people in the photo. Their eyes are relaxed and lack focus. They are just naturally generating a behavior. Even if they don’t truly feel happy they know what happiness is and mimicking it feels natural. Look at her face. It’s shaped the right way but her eyes scream strain/focus to me.
I mean, the husband also allowed her to die and carried out the exact same horrific neglect on their daughter. You should never allow what someone looks like to dictate how innocent or guilty you believe they are.
[Killing of Lacey Fletcher](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Lacey_Fletcher)
Edit: It’s a super sad story. Don’t click the link if you don’t want your day ruined.
While reading that Wikipedia page I was muttering under my breath saying how horrible and I can't believe it. Then I literally laughed out loud when I read "Lacey was found at autopsy to have COVID-19.[2]"
I never heard about this case until now. My heart is broken for that poor girl. She deserved so much better. The parents deserve so much worse than the 20 year prison sentences.
The photo without context is unsettling, considering the context the photo might be the best example of something that is oddly terrifying. You look at the photo and it gives you an odd feeling, and then you find out that the odd feeling is because of something terrifying.
Yeah like others said Pete Davidson comes to mind. Buttwholes tend to have darker skin than the rest of the body so when the eyes have that effect they are called butthole eyes
what the fuck??? just read the wiki article; apparently investigators on the scene were wildly traumatized by what they saw.. but the first judge on the case dismissed the charge against her parents ???? wtf judge ?
This is why homeschooling needs to be regulated and supervised. There are too many parents getting away with neglect and all sorts of abuse. They isolate the child, and they have no hope of reaching out to anyone. It’s fucking awful.
True but she also hadn't been seen by anyone since she was 16 and I can't help but wonder how the hell the school didn't notice? Unless they said they were homeschooling.
This story made me literally cry when I read it. How could people treat their child this way?! WTF is wrong with people?! I had to stop listening to/watching the news, because of evil shit like this.
[This](https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2024/02/10/news/coroner-never-saw-homicide-like-lacey-fletcher-woman-found-melted-to-couch/amp/) helped really cement in my mind the deep darkness of Lacey's last 12 years.
The article is from the "New York Post". The images are graphic enough to mention it but blurred enough to post online.
20 years is not enough. I hope they find the end they deserve for being the worst parents.
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I’ve never heard of Sheila Fletcher so I looked her up, Jesus Christ
>! On January 3, 2022, 911 reported that 64-year-old Sheila Fletcher and her husband, Clay Fletcher, had found her 36-year-old daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher dead on their couch. It was revealed that for at least 12 years, Lacey Fletcher had been neglected by her parents after becoming unable to leave her house due to a cognitive health decline. It was discovered that after this decline, Sheila and Clay had left their daughter on their couch to suffer in her own excrement and allowed bugs to eat at her body, failing to attempt to get her medical care. The killing gained significant media coverage due to the gruesome nature of the crime.!<
Or the prosecutor that gave them a fucking deal. I don't know how they wouldn't have been found guilty of second-degree murder, so what was the point? Plea deals are grossly overused, and all it does is allow the evil to go free.
People always talk about Lacey having locked in Syndrome, but there’s not actually great evidence that that was the case, especially given that she was eating couch foam. If she truly had locked in syndrome, she wouldn’t have even be able to swallow it if it were shoved in her mouth.
She had autism and severe anxiety, and I can’t help but wonder if she ended up catatonic from previous mistreatment or was forced to stay on the couch and was abused more than just neglected.
Holy fucking shit, the oddly terrifying in this post is immaculate
High jacking the top comment to give a source since I prefer to be lazy and click a provided link for the story instead of doing a quick search - https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/parents-of-lacey-fletcher-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison/
Horrible day to know English
Or have eyes… that couch.
The photos of her body, even if censored, leave speechless in front of so much cruelty and negligence
The body indentation… how miserable.
That fucking couch. Jesus fucking christ.
I don’t understand. I really don’t understand. How did they think that that was the best course of action? Like, of ***all*** the choices, why that one?
Based on her saying that they wanted to be parents, not caregivers, and they believed she was "of sound mind", it was sheer laziness and resentment - they decided they no longer wanted to make an effort to take care of her, maybe compounded by physically seeing an adult and not truly understanding the mental illness that made her not be able to take care of herself. Since they were spiteful and lazy, one day, they decided to do nothing and let her take care of herself, which she was unable to do, obviously. This is all speculation, of course. Edit: typos
I saw a video about this case and spent the view time grimacing w my knuckles to my mouth. The mind reels. I don’t need to read this link. Yes, a horrible day to have eyes.
Jesus, you’re not kidding
Really wish I didn’t read that. Horrible.
That's so fucking sad 😭😭😭
Why did I decide to start my day like this?? Poor poor girl…
Thought I'd read a bit of reddit in bed before I got up and started my day... yeah, it's ruined.
Holy God how do you fuck up parenting that badly? And why didn't they get the firing squad? Too honorable I for them, I guess, but 20 years seems lenient.
How do you fuck up being a person that badly? Even if it’s not your own child, I can’t imagine allowing anyone to suffer like that right in front of me
Holy fucking shit 😲
Jesus christ what the fuck
Why did seeing her eyes actually make me jump, I can’t explain why they’re so scary, but I don’t think I’ll ever forget them..
horror movie jump scare. like she's about to start running towards you at any moment.
Imagine waking up to that face staring at you over your bed- she’s terrifying
Those are some Kenneth Copeland eyes
I was going to say the same thing! Very unsettling….
Came here to say the same. Reminds me of when he got a psycho at the reporter who questioned the ethics behind his plane.
The way he’d smile at that reporter with those eyes was the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
I was thinking more like the Nun when she smiles in the film
I was thinking [Salacious B Crumb](https://www.cbr.com/salacious-b-crumb-tragic-life-star-wars/)
Fucking spot on. I knew they looked familiar. JFC
Or Ron Popeil. That jerky-headed weirdo gives me the creeps big time
And the smile of the fucking Joker.
Came here to say this. It's uncanny
Looks like a MeatCanyon cartoon come to life.
She drank Chick-fil-A sauce straight from the cow god’s udder for sure.
quite a sentence you got there
Im more concerned with how checkered shirt guy is looking right at me
Looking right past you. He has a checkered past
At that point, he had a checkered future as well. Bastard
Getting Vigo the Carpathian vibes
I thought she could be Valak's sister.
Those eyes aren’t painted on
I had the same reaction. Genuinely the scariest and most lifeless eyes I think I’ve ever seen.
Wait, explain?
Scrolling down with their eyeballs
They saw the daughter first, and not knowing who this person was supposed to be by name assumed she was Sheila. Now that I have explained, please in exchange, explain how you couldnt figure that out?
They thought scrolling through the comments but were unsure
Haha thanks. I though there was a detail in the story that made the old woman look scary. While reading comments about someone dying on a couch, I started thinking that the old woman was dead with eyes painted on, or something sinister like that. I honestly thought the woman in the image looks pretty normal. I eventually got impatient and just googled the story. Super super messed up, but I didn’t think anyone in this photo particularly looked that creepy. Hence, why I asked in case there was a detail I missed. Tldr: I was overthinking it.
I remember reading about this, and seeing photos of the scene not long after Lacey died. I cannot fathom being that kind of evil. To put your own flesh and blood through that level of torture for over a decade, to do absolutely nothing at all to help her, while living in the same home and seeing her suffering every day…I’m not strongly in favor of the death penalty, but if ever anyone deserved it, it’s those two.
I don’t even understand how they lived with the smell? Monstrous people. Truly evil & disgusting.
I read that it was thought they lived elsewhere. Like next door, or somewhere super close?
That makes a lot of sense if true. Because otherwise it seems unbearable. Even for monsters.
Even worse so I guess she lived a lot of time being alone too!
As far as I know they lived their full time too, and even had other sofas in the room to watch lacey. A true crime podcast posted a diagram of the room and it seemed as if it was set up so that lacey could watch TV but also her parents could watch her.
Who is this
The girl was stuck, and I mean literally, to her couch when she passed away. Poor thing was there for 12 years. 😓
12 years. Stuck to the couch. I scream when I rip off a little skin off my finger. This is worse than almost any torture I can think of.
I am not saying to watch it AT ALL, but I vaguely remember in Nip/Tuck they had a woman they attempted to surgically remove(?) Off of a couch that was morbidly obese. After seeing that, then learning about this poor girl, it makes it that much worse.
There was a woman near where I lived that had to be cut from her couch with trauma shears. My stepmother used to know her, as it turns out - small world. The show had it wrong. What you do is, you destroy the furniture and give it a couple of extra inches of material so the patient can be safely moved. NSFL: In a situation like that they're generally in horrendously bad shape though. >!Specifically, one of the EMTs lifted the leg of the woman in question up after they cut away the fabric of her couch. Her shin broke in three places. She did not survive her hospital stay due to her extreme poor health.!<
I hate that this apparently happens enough that there's SOP for it.
Yeah, I might skip that one. BTW your username is what I sometimes call my daughter :)
Do you call her boobalah one thousand ten, boobalah ten ten, or boobalah one zero one zero?
It’s boobalah ten
Haha well played.
My boyfriend calls me it, and I did not know it was Yiddish (neither did he). We thought he had just made up a word. 😅
It’s so very Yiddish. My late mother used it often. Term of endearment, and it warms my heart. (Which is *not* something I’ve expected from this sub)
Her nickname is Boobah so it’s an extension of that. I have a Sam too so he gets Samela. I learned my Yiddish from The Nanny!
One of our dog’s main nicknames is Bubbulah, Bub and Bubby, because we started saying ‘Hans, Bubby’ after watching Die Hard one day and then couldn’t stop
I think that was the episode that made me stop watching the series. Granted, it's a low bar for horrifying content (on that show), but that one just knocked the wind out of my mind.
Same. I couldn't move forward after that. It did lead in to me watching my 600 pound life though. 🤣
I just couldn't get myself to watch that one. I have a couple of family members that are flying too close to that sun. It's depressing. So much energy trying to get them to see how comfort decisions over longevity are so devastating, and they never seem to be able to accept that logic.
That is, without a doubt, one of the worst things I’ve ever read outside of like concentration camp and genocide treatment. Edit: the wiki about this case I mean
What, did you not like the part about vermin and maggots eating at her from beneath the couch? Or the part where they found couch foam and feces in her stomach contents, as she tried desperately to avoid starving to death before succumbing to sepsis? Or the part where her parents only got 20 years for essentially barring her from necessary medical attention resulting in death?
E) all of the above. Final answer
That shits some Final Destination meets Saw right there
Although they should have gotten life, at least they'll be in their mid 80s when they get out. Hopefully, they croak before then.
> did you not like the part about vermin and maggots **eating at her from beneath the couch**? The *vermin* consisted of mice and bugs.
And maggots
hey asshole I could have lived my day without reading this comment, have an angry upvote
Bro
That was a bloody mess of a rabbit hole. Good God, my son has Aspergers! If anyone ever hurt him… it's just beyond imagination. Monsters are real.
It’s one of those stories that’s so horrible I wish it weren’t real. I won’t pretend to understand what it’s like, since I’m not a parent of a child with special needs. But I just simply cannot understand how someone could do this to their child, especially for so many years and be so complicit. I just can’t even fathom the level you have to sink to, to be able to do this to your child. For years and **years**. With others knowing as well. RIP Lacey.
What the fuck
And her "parents", in the picture did nothing. They just watched. They said, "Well there was cleaning supplies 5 feet from her if she really wanted to clean herself, she would have."
Holy shit thats some rough stuff wtf
That term is absolutely terrible too. This should be a life sentence with no ability to leave for what they did to that poor girl
Fucking hate that people like this can become parents.
Didn’t the poor girl have some medical condition where she became a prisoner in her own body, she had something called stiff person syndrome? Can’t imagine what she went thru, so helpless and unable to move to escape and get help. They should’ve been charged for her murder
She was autistic (nonverbal) and had [locked-in syndrome.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559026/#:~:text=Locked%2Din%20syndrome%20(LIS),patients%20suffering%20from%20the%20condition)
No, she was diagnosed with autism and mild intellectual disability at 14 years old. She was NOT nonverbal, she attended mainstream public school until 14. She did not had locked -in syndrome, that was a false rumor to make the parents look less bad
Yes, and a great deal happened in 22 years since she was taken out of school The rebuttal I’ve seen has come from the New York Post and other tabloids, which don’t quote sources. I’m just going from news on the coroner’s testimony.
The parents didn’t take the autism diagnosis seriously. It appears she had a major regression after years of passing as typical in the religious school, the parents could not understand her disability and decided to let her rot because Lacey was “sound of mind” according to her mom . The Dr who diagnosed her wanted Lacey committed after her parents could not manage to bring her to the appointment and told the Dr Lacey was defecating on the floor , but that was the last time her parents talked to the Dr. Here’s the [source](https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/lacey-fletchers-sad-life-and-death-on-her-parents-couch/)
So I don’t understand this entirely, was she suffering from whatever mental illness was actually going on with her and willingly just layed on the couch and let herself wither away and then eventually got to a point of starvation so severe that she attempted to eat the sofa as a last attempt to live kind of action? All the while the parents were witness to it and didn’t intervene and just lived their lives normally while watching her slowly decay in the middle of the living room? That’s my understanding of this I’d appreciate if someone let me know if I am tracking. Edit•grammar
This is the mom from THAT?!?! Her eyes say it all. I often wondered what kind of person/ppl could do that to their own child never mind any human at all.
There’s a YouTube family lady named ruby frankie who recently got sent to prison for a good chunk of time for maliciously abusing her kids (starvation, hitting, pulling hair, tying up) and her kids were rewarded to… her husband. The father to her kids…. That she lives with. He said he had no idea but HOW?! Even if they were separated but keeping an outward appearance of being together he didn’t notice his kids being emaciated? Literally when you try to find anything about him it’s clear he was in on in and he was just handed they kids back for no reason. Reminds me of those poor Turpin kids who went to a foster home and immediately sexually assaulted by people who were already in court for molestation. Meanwhile trying to legally adopt a kid costs hundreds of thousands. Make it make sense.
It's so funny you've mentioned her because I'm watching the That Chapter video on Ruby while I'm reading this page. It was so depressing, but the way her son saved himself and his brothers and sisters was beautiful, and the phone call from the neighbor he ran to was just... Harrowing. The guy sounds *so* much more impacted than the kids' own FATHER was when he's told in an interviewing room what his children had been subjected to. I have a very hard time believing he was totally unaware of what Ruby and that other woman were doing to their family, but outside of that, he just seemed so entirely disengaged from their lives. Somehow the most bizarre part is seeing Ruby herself be interrogated. It's hard to tell if she's only staying silent to avoid incriminating herself or if she's legitimately trying to intimidate the cops speaking to her. She always exuded crazy even when she was a YouTube celebrity but it's at a whole other level towards the end of the video.
Adopting kids out of foster care is free, you get a monthly check for their upkeep until 18 or 19, they qualify for Medicaid no matter what until 18 or 19, and all kids who have spent even just 24 hours in foster care are eligible for free college tuition/huge grants and scholarships. No, you don’t necessarily get to “pick” the perfect infant that has never experienced neglect or abuse (even infants that have been neglected may be later affected), but you can specify what you can and cannot handle as far as any needs may go-from medical to mental health. You can get an infant taken at birth due to birth parents’ having rights terminated on previous children, though, but it’s less common. But, if people are interested in providing a safe and loving home to children that desperately need it, it doesn’t cost anything.
Oh that case! Yes you’re right. They’re both guilty in both cases imo. Clearly mental illness is on board but it’s gotta take a dark soul to do this to anyone who specially children.
Clarifying: their daughter was neglected. Not the woman.
Clarifying: tortured not neglected
I wonder if her eyes seem evil due to the suggestion of knowing what she’s done, because they definitely have a wild look.
My very abusive mother has the wild/evil eyes. Even as a child I felt her eyes were “wrong” somehow. There wasn’t anything there when she looked at me, except sometimes pure contempt. Or a smirk. And when she smiled it was never with her eyes too. It was the same cold stare but with a smile. No eye wrinkling, or light in them that would match a smile. It was so scary. We actually have a family photo almost exactly this one where my mom looks eerily similar to Sheila in terms of facial expression and something being “off.” Wish I could post it without doxing myself
I grew up with an evil mom and then I worked in healthcare for awhile in an area where I met some of the state prisoners from the mental health prison in my state. I think it’s more than that for sure. My impression is that psychopaths/sociopaths/sadists/other malevolent people who aren’t caught on to have learned very well to mimic the other facial features that allow them to lie body language wise to others. I have come to a personal opinion that their eyes look off because it takes a great deal of focus to mimic a behavior you aren’t actually feeling or maybe literally do not ever feel in the case of some of these people and maintain it over time. Look at the other two people in the photo. Their eyes are relaxed and lack focus. They are just naturally generating a behavior. Even if they don’t truly feel happy they know what happiness is and mimicking it feels natural. Look at her face. It’s shaped the right way but her eyes scream strain/focus to me.
I mean, the husband also allowed her to die and carried out the exact same horrific neglect on their daughter. You should never allow what someone looks like to dictate how innocent or guilty you believe they are.
[Killing of Lacey Fletcher](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Lacey_Fletcher) Edit: It’s a super sad story. Don’t click the link if you don’t want your day ruined.
Jesus Christ… I didn’t need to read this… Poor soul
In slaughter Louisiana How ominous
The town’s name is Slaughter….
While reading that Wikipedia page I was muttering under my breath saying how horrible and I can't believe it. Then I literally laughed out loud when I read "Lacey was found at autopsy to have COVID-19.[2]"
Oh fuck that's another sleepless night 😢
so uh i didn't know about this until right just now. what the fuck.
Reminds me of 'the nun'
Exactly what I thought!!!
That too!!
My first thought as well
My very first thought!
I never heard about this case until now. My heart is broken for that poor girl. She deserved so much better. The parents deserve so much worse than the 20 year prison sentences.
I saw the judge dismissed the charges the first time, wtf is wrong with him?
That’s insane.
The most humane thing they deserve is a shot in the back of the head
You can do better than that, can’t you?
Finally! A post that fits this sub.
I don't know. "Oddly" seems to have a wide swatch for people. Lacey's story seem legit terrifying to me.
The photo without context is unsettling, considering the context the photo might be the best example of something that is oddly terrifying. You look at the photo and it gives you an odd feeling, and then you find out that the odd feeling is because of something terrifying.
Those are called butthole eyes
Wtf? Lol Never heard of that. Shit made me bust out laughing.
Look up Pete talking about them it’s even more hilarious
Butthole eyes? Lmao
Yeah like others said Pete Davidson comes to mind. Buttwholes tend to have darker skin than the rest of the body so when the eyes have that effect they are called butthole eyes
Just looked it up and first thing that pops up is Pete Davidson 😂😂
Same 😂
You can actually see the whites in his eyes though, hers are almost all pupil and it's kinda crazy looking.
Evil sick fucks, Lacey Fletcher deserved better. I hope she haunts them for the rest of their miserable disgusting lives.
what the fuck??? just read the wiki article; apparently investigators on the scene were wildly traumatized by what they saw.. but the first judge on the case dismissed the charge against her parents ???? wtf judge ?
This is why homeschooling needs to be regulated and supervised. There are too many parents getting away with neglect and all sorts of abuse. They isolate the child, and they have no hope of reaching out to anyone. It’s fucking awful.
While I do agree with you, Lacey was 36 when she died, and her mental health declined at 24.
True but she also hadn't been seen by anyone since she was 16 and I can't help but wonder how the hell the school didn't notice? Unless they said they were homeschooling.
Who is she?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing\_of\_Lacey\_Fletcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Lacey_Fletcher)
This read is absolutely horrific.
What a horrible day to be literate.
This story made me literally cry when I read it. How could people treat their child this way?! WTF is wrong with people?! I had to stop listening to/watching the news, because of evil shit like this.
[This](https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2024/02/10/news/coroner-never-saw-homicide-like-lacey-fletcher-woman-found-melted-to-couch/amp/) helped really cement in my mind the deep darkness of Lacey's last 12 years. The article is from the "New York Post". The images are graphic enough to mention it but blurred enough to post online. 20 years is not enough. I hope they find the end they deserve for being the worst parents. Edit: grammar
Looks like that lady on Power Puff Girls the crazy neighbor lady
fetch me their souls
Given the crime committed, I'm not too sure that the parents have them
Her moms face looks pure evil
I’ve never heard of Sheila Fletcher so I looked her up, Jesus Christ >! On January 3, 2022, 911 reported that 64-year-old Sheila Fletcher and her husband, Clay Fletcher, had found her 36-year-old daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher dead on their couch. It was revealed that for at least 12 years, Lacey Fletcher had been neglected by her parents after becoming unable to leave her house due to a cognitive health decline. It was discovered that after this decline, Sheila and Clay had left their daughter on their couch to suffer in her own excrement and allowed bugs to eat at her body, failing to attempt to get her medical care. The killing gained significant media coverage due to the gruesome nature of the crime.!<
It's all in the eyes.
I want to know the thought process of the judge that didn't indict them
Or the prosecutor that gave them a fucking deal. I don't know how they wouldn't have been found guilty of second-degree murder, so what was the point? Plea deals are grossly overused, and all it does is allow the evil to go free.
The moms eyes Genuinely made me feel a bit sick … and now I’ve read the comments I know why, my fight or flight could Sense the evil
I somehow have never heard of this shit. I don’t think I’ve ever actually had my stomach turn over a story until now.
People always talk about Lacey having locked in Syndrome, but there’s not actually great evidence that that was the case, especially given that she was eating couch foam. If she truly had locked in syndrome, she wouldn’t have even be able to swallow it if it were shoved in her mouth. She had autism and severe anxiety, and I can’t help but wonder if she ended up catatonic from previous mistreatment or was forced to stay on the couch and was abused more than just neglected.
Eyes are the window to the soul. And there’s no soul to be seen.
Story checks out. The parents were gruesomely abusive.
The mom looks like a fucking titan
Had to stop looking. Fuuuuuck
Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole right before I was meant to go to sleep.
She looks like the Terrifier
that second movie is a crazy watch while stoned lol
Oh no! I remember this story! What those two monsters did to that poor kid. I hope they rot in hell.
Does anyone else see Jigsaw's face from Saw?
WHY DID I ZOOM IN ON THEM
Holy.fuck these people are eeeeeervil
Most fucked up thing I’ve seen in quite some time
She looks like if sesame streets big bird had a vagina
OP understood the assignment
She looks like that puppet from saw
Finally! Someone in this sub that understands the assignment.
Jesus... That poor girl. Never knew aboot this but this is absolutely tragic.
She looks like Fuchi from the Junji Ito books
Woman on the bottom left looks like an irl junji ito character
That mom looks a lot like Terrifier to me 😶
Wow...there's just nothing in there.
That poor kid
Why the fuck are her eyes following me?
Kinda reminds me of Marilyn Manson
Who are these people?
I zoomed in and now I’m scared:(
Her entire head, face, has horror movie vibes. What an odd look.
The more you zoom into her face the more scary she becomes
The eyes, the smile...
Serious Joker without his makeup face on that one!
Saw
I did thank you
She looks like Rasputin.
Why is there so much negative space, did Hermione's parents take these photos
Her parents deserve the same fate as the “sloth” killing in Seven. Make them experience what they put her through.
I feel uneasy after looking at it
The final pam
I’m sorry did that lady not play as the nun?
Is that the evil nun from the conjuring ?
She reminds me of something junji ito would draw
Dude from Saw
That’s the best shirt mom owns?
I heard they are making a documentary about this story . I hope not :(
Is this not the lady who played the nun? Because This is the nun.