Woman dies from broken arm infection after 'trusted' caregiver ignored it was 'completely broken in half' so she could drop off her dog

A 54-year-old caregiver successful Texas volition walk decades down bars for severely abusing and neglecting the disabled pistillate she was being paid to look after.

Comal County District Judge R. Bruce Boyer past period ordered Brandy Marie Doster to serve 25 years successful a authorities correctional installation aft she pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of wounded to a disabled idiosyncratic causing superior bodily injury, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Comal County District Attorney's Office, the probe into Doster began connected May 21, 2023, erstwhile officers with the New Braunfels Police Department responded to a 911 telephone regarding the assemblage of an big pistillate successful the backseat of a car parked successful her garage.

The caller was Doster's estranged daughter, who told constabulary Doster had arrived astatine her location "hysterical and incoherent" and "claiming she had been successful an mishap and that the unfortunate was 'sleeping' successful the backseat of the vehicle."

Doster's girl drove to the victim's residence, wherever she recovered the victim's assemblage inactive wrong the conveyance and wrapped successful an exigency blanket. The girl instantly called 911.

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Investigators responding to the country soon learned that Doster was a longtime person of the victim's household and had been hired to attraction for the unfortunate connected a paid, full-time ground aft the unfortunate suffered a traumatic encephalon wounded resulting successful predominant seizures. While Doster had erstwhile wellness attraction experience, she was not a licensed caregiver successful Texas.

At first, the victim's household "trusted Doster completely," providing her with a $70,000 yearly salary, covering her regular expenses, and allowing her to unrecorded successful the victim's location and thrust the victim's vehicle. The household adjacent purchased a location successful Canyon Lake for Doster's relatives to unrecorded in, believing they were supporting a caring individual.

Over time, prosecutors said Doster began "isolating the victim," telling household members that constricted interaction was indispensable for the victim's well-being.

Doster's girl told investigators she had witnessed her parent maltreatment the unfortunate but felt she could not intervene, describing her parent arsenic being "very manipulative," particularly erstwhile it came to "lies by omission."

"[The daughter] recounted seeing her parent necktie the victim's hands and feet to furniture, deed and slap the unfortunate — sometimes truthful hard the unfortunate would autumn to the level — and shove a sock successful the victim's rima if the unfortunate attempted to scream," the merchandise states. "She besides stated that the location the victim's household bought adjacent Canyon Lake for Doster's household members had go known arsenic the 'cat house' owed to much than 110 cats being kept successful the home."

When archetypal interviewed by detectives, Doster stated she had "memory issues" and claimed she "blacked out" the nighttime the unfortunate died.

But erstwhile confronted with the aesculapian examiner's evidence, Doster changed her story. The postmortem showed not lone that "the victim's limb had been wholly breached successful half," but that the coiled went untreated, starring to "a terrible corruption and necrosis." The victim's origin of decease was determined to beryllium fatal sepsis.

"Doster yet admitted that she was alert of the victim's breached limb for astir 2 weeks earlier her death," prosecutors wrote. "When asked wherefore she ne'er sought aesculapian care, Doster told investigators she '(expletive) up' but claimed she intended to instrumentality the unfortunate to the infirmary aft dropping disconnected her canine successful San Antonio. Detectives noted that Doster had passed aggregate hospitals on the mode to and from San Antonio."

When questioned astir the further alleged abuse, Doster reportedly admitted she had tied her down — claiming it was for the victim's information — and placed socks successful the victim's rima to support her from speaking, and besides threw objects astatine the victim.

The admissions were conscionable a information of the "extensive evidence" authorities said revealed a "disturbing signifier of ongoing abuse, neglect, and deliberate disregard for the well-being of an guiltless and defenseless victim."