According to court documents obtained by New Times, an employee of a solar-panel company went to the home for a scheduled appointment, where he noticed that it smelled absolutely awful.
Out of concern that something may have happened to an elderly person, the worker phoned up the cops.
Deputies searched the house, finding nine cats in one room, four dogs roaming around, and an elderly gentleman wearing nothing but a diaper handcuffed to a bed.
Aside from being handcuffed, the man was also tied down with soft restraints, and was laying in his own feces, according to the documents.
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Rothlisberg showed up to the house during all this, and let deputies know that was her uncle handcuffed to the bed.
She said she was the one who "cares" for her uncle, and when she showed up at her house at 12:30 p.m. yesterday, she mentioned that
she'd left her uncle that way since the previous night, according to the documents.
Rothlisberg said she bought the handcuffs online, and said she restrains him to the bed because "he gets out of bed and falls a lot."
She said
she had no idea it would be against the law to tie someone to a bed, adding that
her mother, a retired nurse -- whom she'd been driving around all morning -- actually suggested the idea.
When she left the house that morning, she left him handcuffed because "he wasn't awake yet, so [she] decided to leave him like that," according to the documents.
After adding in that her 14-year-old daughter lives at the house too, deputies decided to ask her what was up with the dog and cat shit all over the house.
Rothlisberg said
she didn't have time to clean the house because she was driving her mother around.
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