OTTAWA — A stomach-turning allegation of elder abuse has prompted a police investigation at an Ottawa nursing home.

Maggots were found in a leg wound of one of the residents at Extendicare’s West End Villa, according to Postmedia.

The 89-year-old woman’s daughter tells the paper, she doesn’t have the words to describe her family’s horror at her mother being sent to hospital with maggots in her leg.

The home’s staff claim the woman refused to let them change the dressing on her chronic ulcer, and also declined to have her legs elevated.

This isn’t the first incident involving this resident at this home — she was attacked by another resident two years ago, leaving her with a broken hip. The attack resulted in a lawsuit and out-of-court settlement.

The Ottawa Police Elder Abuse Unit is investigating the maggots incident.