Darrel White Charged For Letting Maggots Eat Sick Wife (Updated)

By Vince Grzegorek on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:29 am

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Update: Darrel White has avoided jail time. According to 19 Action News, White pleaded guilty to "failure to provide for a functionally impaired person" and reckless homicide. He received five years probation.

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In a story you probably don't want to catch up on if you're eating dinner soon...

Darrel White has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after ignoring his bedridden, sick wife while maggots feasted on her until she died.

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