Caregivers Who Allegedly Tortured Autistic Woman To Death Were Paid $250,000 By New Mexico To Care For Her
An autistic woman in New Mexico endured “torture” from her caregivers before she died. According to officials, the caregivers were paid by the state to care for her. Three people were arrested for the “extreme abuse and neglect” of Mary Melero, 38, who was discovered in the back of a van that the caregivers were taking across the Texas border into Mexico in February. At the time she was found, Melero was unresponsive and unable to stand. She was taken to a hospital where doctors found that she had pneumonia, wounds across her body, bedsores and ulcers. She was also in septic shock due to infec...