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You are here: Home / Crime News / Young Couple Charged with Abusing Elderly Woman

Young Couple Charged with Abusing Elderly Woman

December 1, 2016 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

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A young couple have been arrested for allegedly neglecting and abusing the man’s great-grandmother.

Seth Duff, 19, and his wife, Stormy, also 19, have been charged with Willful Abuse and Neglect of an Adult, according to records from the Hamilton County Jail. In addition, Stormy Duff was charged with simple possession of marijuana after authorities discovered a small amount of pot on her person as she was taken into custody. The Duffs have been jailed under a $7,500 bond.

According to an East Ridge police report, officers were called to 5308 Lazard Street early Wednesday evening to check on the welfare of Seth Duff’s great-grandmother, who is in her 80s. Officers spoke with the Duffs who told them they were the primary caretakers of the elderly woman.

The report states that the Duffs were taken into custody on outstanding warrants through East Ridge for Failure to Appear on domestic charges.

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Seth Duff

Emergency medical workers were called to the scene as the elderly woman told officers that she wanted to go to the hospital.

The report states that officers observed the residence “appeared to be uninhabitable due to the filth and animal urine and feces scattered through the house.”

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Stormy Duff

EMS workers, the report states, noticed untreated festering bed sores on the elderly woman. Officers noted that the woman was soiled in her own feces and urine. The bed underneath where the woman was laying was soiled as well, the report states. It is unknown if the elderly victim had been fed or given anything to drink.

The report goes on to document that the woman’s bedroom door had been padlocked from the outside. Suicide letters written by Seth Duff were also found. Those letters, the report states, were written by Seth “expressing his guilt for not being able to take care of (his great-grandmother).”

The elderly woman was taken to Parkridge East Hospital by EMS. Photos were taken of the house and of the woman’s injuries. Adult Protective Services have been notified, the report states.

 

 

Filed Under: Crime News, FEATURED STORY, SLIDER

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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