An Adams County judge today sentenced Tammera Deane Henritze, 39, to 18 years in prison for neglecting and mistreating a 65-year-old Alzheimer’s patient she was paid to take care of.
Henritze pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree assault on an at-risk victim in August.
The elderly woman, who was not named, weighed just 94 pounds when she was found “locked in a bedroom in squalid conditions, surrounded by rotting food as well as her own urine and feces,” according to a joint statement from the Adams County District Attorney’s and state Attorney General’s offices.
She was moved to a nursing home and recovered to about 150 pounds, prosecutors said.
“The stiff sentence the judge imposed appropriately highlights the severity of the suspect’s crimes,” Attorney General John Suthers said in the statement.
Added Adams County District Attorney Don Quick: “One case like this is too many.”
