Tucson couple accused of defrauding bed-ridden patient

Tucson couple accused of defrauding bed-ridden patient

Dec. 9, 2011 09:09 AM

Associated Press

TUCSON — A Tucson woman and her boyfriend are both facing fraud and theft charges against a bedridden multiple-sclerosis patient, who later died.

Thirty-six-year-old Lea Marie Hughes is already in jail for allegedly neglecting 64-year-old Ruthann Jacox. She died Nov. 8 at Tucson Medical Center 11 weeks after Hughes was arrested on suspicion of vulnerable adult and child abuse charges.

Hughes’ boyfriend, 39-year-old Gilbert Pierre Peralta Jr., denied the charges after his arraignment Thursday in Pima County Superior Court.

Peralta told the Arizona Daily Star (http://bit.ly/w2wtat ) the couple loved Jacox as though she was a member of the family and denied ever stealing from the ailing woman

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