Family Sues Nursing Home After Mother Found with Maggots in Ear

By Philip Caulfield, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Family Sues Nursing Home After Mother Found with Maggots in Ear

December 12, 2012 Updated Dec 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM PDT

An Illinois family is suing a nursing home after a small horde of maggots was found crawling in their ailing 92-year-old mother’s ear.

"I was horrified, shocked. I thought it was terrible," the woman's husband, John McCann, 88, told CBS Chicago.

McCann said he spent his life savings to have his wife, Catherine, who suffers from Alzheimer’s and doesn't talk, stay at the Home for the Aged in Arlington Heights, which costs about $10,000 a month, the station reported.

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