Shirley M. Wilson represented herself at her three-day trial on elder abuse charges for ending Don Wilson's care at a nursing home and denying him in-home care. A Superior Court jury convicted her Friday.
But she denied prosecutors' statements, saying her husband didn't need round-the-clock care.
A Delaware State Police trooper investigating a report of workplace theft March 27 at Wilson's scrapyard in Wilmington found her husband of 62 years lying in a soiled diaper. He had bedsores and was suffering from dementia.
Prosecutors said Wilson had plenty of assets, but refused to pay for her ailing husband's care.
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Information from: The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal
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