After a disabled girl died, Kaylea Titford’s parents were sentenced to prison for murder.

The parents of a disabled adolescent who perished morbidly obese after experiencing “shocking and protracted neglect over lockdown” were sentenced to prison for manslaughter.

When Kaylea Titford passed away in October 2020, just a few weeks after turning 16, she weighed 146 kg (22 st 13 pounds). She was born with hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the brain, and spina bifida, a disease of the spine that prevented her from using her legs.

Swansea crown court heard on Wednesday that when she passed away, she was laying in a filthy bed, surrounded by trash, with maggots “feeding on her body” and flies buzzing above her head.

A jurors found her father, Alun Titford, 45, guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.

In December, her mother, 40-year-old Sarah Lloyd-Jones, entered a guilty plea to the same allegation. Living together in Newtown, Powys, central Wales, she and Titford had six children, the first of whom was born when she was 16 years old. She received a six-year sentence.

“This was a horrifying case; a case of sustained neglect, leading to the death of a totally dependent, bed-ridden, vulnerable, disabled girl at the hands of her own parents,” Mr. Justice Griffiths said in sentencing the couple on Wednesday at Swansea Crown Court.

The judge ruled that both parents were “equally responsible and equally culpable,” but in light of Lloyd-late Jones’s guilty plea, the judge reduced her sentence.

The court heard that in the months preceding Kaylea’s death, Lloyd-Jones turned down numerous offers of assistance from health specialists.

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