500lb woman found lying in her own waste covered in sores and maggots in apartment shared with her four children and husband dies in hospital



A 500-pound woman who was found lying in her own waste covered in bedsores and maggots has died in hospital.



The unidentified woman, 41, had to be extricated from her Detroit apartment by a team of experts and taken to St John Oakland Hospital.

An autopsy will take place at some time today.

Warren firefighters took a morbidly obese woman to the hospital two weeks ago after finding her confined to a bed and living in a filthy, bug-infested apartment

Fire Commissioner Skip McAdams said firefighters wore biohazard suits and had to remove the entire door wall of the apartment in order to get the woman to an ambulance

A neighbor said the woman has four children who also lives at the home. Child protective services workers were contacted

Firefighters wearing bio hazard suits removed the bedridden woman from her bug-infested apartment 2 weeks ago.

She lived at the home with her husband and four children. Now questions are being asked about why no one did anything to help her sooner.

The family revealed she has been bed ridden ever since a 2011 car accident which left her with a smashed pelvis.

The woman was on some kind of state assistance, which may have been cut off, according to a preliminary investigation, officials said.

Fire rescuers notified police and state authorities Tuesday on suspicions of neglect.

The apartment showed signs of a bio hazard, insect infestation and was deemed uninhabitable after a fire crew removed a wall in order to rescue the woman, according to The Detroit News.

McAdams said emergency workers went to the apartment just after noon after following a 911 call from someone who said the woman was unable to get out of bed. There were bugs and fecal matter throughout the apartment

'She had been bed-ridden for a long time,' McAdams said. 'She had broken a hip at some point in the past and had become bed-ridden'

Her children - two toddlers and a teen - have been turned over to the care of an aunt. The house has been sealed with the belongings inside.



Police spoke to the woman's husband - who has also not been identified - who said he tried to help her.

Crying, he said: 'I love her and it was hard, and it was just me. And I just did the best I could for so long.'



Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green revealed he also spoke to the children and sister and said an investigation is underway.