A woman from Florida faces charges of neglecting an elderly or disabled adult and committing battery against a person aged 65 or older. This follows accusations from her children that she mistreated their 77-year-old grandmother, who suffers from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
According to an arrest affidavit, Janet Edwards, 49, acknowledged witnessing her elderly mother consume feces from her hands on at least five separate occasions without intervening, as reported by Law&Crime.
Edwards reportedly told her children, “she’s going to learn,” after she refused to change her mother’s soiled Pampers.
The children claimed they observed their mother slapping their grandmother and leaving her unattended to manage on her own in their shared residence.
In May 2025, Edwards told her adult son, “She’s going to learn because she is always doing this,” when he visited their Hialeah home to check on them, as noted by WPLG.
These remarks were made after the son opened his grandmother’s door and found her with feces on her hands. He requested his mother to clean her up, but she refused to do so.
“The bedroom door was locked from the outside,” the affidavit said. “[The son] observed the victim laying on an air mattress and there was no electricity,” Law&Crime reported.
The affidavit said the elderly woman was locked in her room from the outside.
Edwards’ adult daughter reported similar instances of abuse and neglect and provided text messages she received from her mother that included photographs of her grandmother holding feces in her hands.
“[Edwards] wrote in the messages she smelled s*** and was going back to bed,” the affidavit said.
Edwards told police she refused to clean up her mother because she was the sole caregiver and “because she was upset or frustrated,” the affidavit said. She denied that she slapped or hit the elderly woman.
She was booked into jail and released on a $3,500 bond on Wednesday with an order to stay away from her mother, WTVJ reported. Her next court date is December 19.
It’s not clear where her mother is at this time.
