Overview
- Sayegh, 38, pleaded guilty to negligent care of a dependent person and was sentenced earlier this month in Pennsylvania.
- Police found the victim barely responsive on July 19, 2022, in a home described as deplorable, with animal feces on the floor and a foul odor.
- The woman had multiple open, foul-smelling wounds and severe dehydration, and she died two days after officers discovered her.
- Court records say Sayegh admitted she had not bathed her mother for months or taken her to a doctor in over a year despite post-stroke disability and diabetes.
- Judge Jackie Atherton Bernard rebuked the neglect at sentencing, and reader comments in coverage criticized the prison term as too lenient.