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Bail reduction denied in grisly elder abuse case

July 21, 2005

A Valley Springs (CA) couple accused of neglecting the husband’s 91-year-oldmother to the point she was lying in her own body fluids, has beendenied a reduction in their bail.

Alan Deyarmon, 54, and Rosie Deyarmon, 51, are being held in the Calaveras County Jail in lieu of $130,000 bail each.

Theyeach face charges of elder abuse, stealing or embezzling from anelderly patient, and two counts of child endangerment involving twoboys.

The rest of this story is available in the Calaveras Enterprise.  Warning:  the facts of this case are pretty grim–not for the weak-of-stomach.