The mother and grandparents of a disabled teen 'who was left to rot to death in his bed' were barred from attending his funeral on Thursday by a Kentucky judge.

Joseph 'Joey' Bishop, 18, died on Saturday at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from an infection caused by bedsores.

Court documents state the teen, who suffered from muscular dystrophy and used a wheelchair, had not been removed from his bed for at least two years inside a Kenton County home on Lake Street where he lived with his mother, Jamie Bishop, and his grandparents, Ray and Sharon Martin.

Police arrested his 40-year-old mother and grandparents following his death, as they all remain jailed on second-degree manslaughter charges.

Tragic: Joseph 'Joey' Bishop (file above), 18, died on Saturday at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from an infection caused by bedsores. He suffered from muscular dystrophy and used a wheelchair, but had not been removed from his bed for at least two years

His mother and grandparents filed a request to be allowed to leave the jail to attend his funeral on Thursday at Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home in Ludlow, but it was denied by District Judge Ann Ruttle on Tuesday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

In response, Ruttle shook her head and said she had already denied a previous request by the suspects to attend the teen's funeral.

'They really have no right to go,' Ruttle said. 'Three capable people could have easily taken care of one sick child and they let him rot.

The hearing came the same day as the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services said that Joseph's death prompted a state investigation of caretaker neglect, the newspaper reported.

The teen lived in a home with his mother, Jamie Bishop (above in booking photo), 40, and grandparents. Police arrested all three of them following his death

The teen's grandparents, Ray (left) and Sharon Martin (right), along with his mother were charged with second-degree manslaughter and are being held in lieu of $50,000 cash bond each

Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders called the death of the 18-year-old 'tragic and avoidable' and said the suspects 'turned a case of neglect into a homicide.'

Sanders explained that the teen had numerous bedsores on his hands, wrists, back, ankles, feet, arms and legs.

He described that the largest bedsore the teen had was two inches deep and the size of a dinner plate near his tailbone, as both muscle and bone were exposed.

I've never seen anything like this,' he said in court.

On Tuesday, a request filed by his mother and grandparents to be allowed to leave the jail to attend his funeral on Thursday was denied by District Judge Ann Ruttle (above)

During the court hearing, she told the trio (above): 'They really have no right to go. Three capable people could have easily taken care of one sick child and they let him rot.'

In addition, Ludlow police Detective Eric Love testified that the teen's mother and grandparents knew about the bedsores for months.

Love said the adults made 'a pact' not to seek outside medical assistance or call 911, as they believed they could care for him perfectly fine, WCPO reported.

He said the trio were scared that they would get in trouble for neglect. But on Friday, Jamie Bishop was forced to call the Ludlow Fire Department after her son started slurring his words and couldn't eat or drink.

He died the next day at the hospital and Love testified that he interviewed the three individuals independently.

Love testified that each said: 'We all should have called. We all messed up.'

He added that Raymond Martin is the only one who showed remorse during the interviews.

While searching the family's home, Love said authorities found cleaning supplies, a tube of ointment, bandages and bagged bedding and sheets in the basement.

Video courtesy of WCPO

In addition, Ludlow police Detective Eric Love (above) testified that the teen's mother and grandparents knew about the bedsores for months

They also discovered two prescription bottles, as one was filled in January and the other in October 2014. They both still had medication inside of them as they didn't appear to be used.

Jamie Bishop and her parents are each being held in lieu of $50,000 cash bond.

Since being arrested, Jamie Bishop's 14-year-old daughter was taken into state care.

A February 2015 investigation into the family by the Cabinet for Families and Children had found that Joseph Bishop had not physically attended school since 2011, the Enquirer reported.

The family moved between a few school districts while the teen was in middle school, and he last attended Tichenor Middle School as a seventh-grader.

The family moved back to Latonia and Joseph Bishop did not want to enroll again at Holmes Middle School because he had apparently been injured there, according to records.

'At Holmes Middle, their elevators were down and they convinced Joseph to scoot down the stairs out of his wheelchair. When they picked him up to put him back in his wheelchair, they dropped him and broke a bone,' the investigation report said.

While searching the family's home (above), Love said authorities found cleaning supplies, a tube of ointment, bandages and bagged bedding and sheets in the basement

' ... The bus driver told (his grandmother) that she thinks Joey was hurt because he was crying the whole time on the bus.'

No one from Holmes Middle School told the family of the injury, according to the report.

Officials at the school have declined in the past to discuss the teen's attendance due to student privacy laws.

On February 6, 2015, a social worker went to the family's home to speak with both the teen and his mother.

They both told the social worker that he was 'scared that he was going to get hurt again especially since his muscles have weakened since the incident,' the state report reads.

But they both agreed to having him return to the middle school, as a plan was created which included taking him there for an evaluation.

The social worker followed up with the family a week later, but a scheduled meeting was canceled due to a snow day.

On April 7, 2015, the mother told the social worker that her son was going to begin a school program at Holmes where he would first attend part-time, and then transition into a full-time student beginning in the fall of 2016.

'He is going to be starting as a freshman and work toward credits for what he missed,' the report reads.

The case was closed May 25, 2015, after Jamie Bishop said she had all the necessary paperwork for her son to be admitted into school again.



