What to Know
- Albert Weaver Sr.'s 53-year-old son, his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter's boyfriend face a maximum combined sentence of 14 years.
- Prosecutors say the loved ones cashed Weaver's pension checks instead of caring for the elderly Bucks County man.
- Once hospitalized, Albert Weaver Sr. uttered the words, "help me." He died less than two weeks later.
Four people, including three family members, have pleaded guilty to stealing from an 84-year-old man in Pennsylvania and neglecting him until he died of starvation.
A judge sentenced Albert Weaver Sr.'s 53-year-old son Albert Jr., his daughter-in-law Virginia Weaver and his granddaughter's boyfriend, Anthony Dorney, to a combined maximum of 14 years in state prison Monday.
Weaver's granddaughter Amanda Weaver also pleaded guilty, but her sentencing has been delayed pending a mental-health evaluation.
“It is incomprehensible to me that a family who claims to love someone could treat him this way,” Judge Wallace Bateman Jr. said. “I think he was a cash cow for you. You took his money and didn’t give him the slightest bit of care.”
Prosecutors say the four viewed Weaver as an "ATM machine" and cashed his pension checks instead of caring for the man.
Weaver was found unresponsive in his Quakertown home in November 2016.
Once hospitalized, he uttered the words, "help me." Weaver died 12 days later.
The judge says Weaver could have lived a productive life had someone taken care of him.
Virginia Weaver apologized in court Monday, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.
“I’m really sorry for everything that happened to him, and I’m going to regret it for the rest of my life,” she said.
Weaver Jr. said he felt "foolish" and his attorney Keith Williams' said his client "was a bad son," according to prosecutors.
