On Monday, 40-year-old Elizabeth Drake reportedly pled no contest to deliberately subjecting a person in danger to abuse and resisting an officer, and was convicted of a quotation for unsanitary circumstances for a pet. She declined to handle the court docket and, per Legislation&Crime, was sentenced to a 12 months in jail, plus 9 months in jail, three years prolonged supervision and banned type contacting the sufferer — her personal mom.

The costs stem from Drake’s December 2023 arrest — which got here after a supply one who got here to the house she shared wither her mother, 72, heard somebody “yelling for assist” and contacted authorities.

Drake, at first, allegedly advised police her mom was okay inside, earlier than warning officers that her mother’s bed room was “messy” after they demanded to see for themselves.

The responding officer, per the felony criticism, wrote he “he instantly observed a powerful odor of animal, rubbish, urine, and feces” upon coming into the house, saying there “was hardly a path to stroll resulting from all the rubbish on the ground.”

The officer additionally “noticed bugs everywhere in the residence,” with the circumstances so poor he wrote he “felt that I could vomit.”

After they entered the lady’s room, officers allegedly could not spot the sufferer at first, “as a result of quantity of rubbish” — together with “used bathroom paper” and “dirty diapers” — littering the realm. The lady then claimed her daughter had been “holding her [prisoner] and he or she needed to get out of the home.”

The felony criticism describes the lady’s bedsheets as “darkish brown,” claiming, “bugs had been seen throughout her and her mattress.”

“The carpet seemed to be caked down presumably with urine and feces. [The victim] was yelling for assist and it took some time for her to consider that the officers had been actually folks and actual cops,” reads the docs. “When rescue carried [the victim] out of the home, [the officer] noticed that she had mattress sores, urine materials caught to her hair, and what bug droppings on her.”

The sufferer advised authorities she broke her leg a few 12 months in the past, which made it troublesome to maneuver round with out assist. Per police, she “indicated that she had not moved from that mattress within the at the very least a 12 months” and received no assist from her daughter.

Drake, nonetheless, supplied up a distinct perspective.

“Elizabeth acknowledged that her mother selected to reside within the situation her room was in though her mother could not care for herself and the entire residence was in the identical sort of situation,” the criticism reads. “Elizabeth acknowledged that she ignores her mother’s cries for assist resulting from it bugging her and stopping her from having the ability to do what she needs, which generally meant her being on her pc.”

Her pc, in fact, is the place she ran her true crime weblog, the since-shuttered Inexperienced Bay Crime Studies, in addition to the Fb web page Inexperienced Bay Crime Studies, which at present has round 158,000 followers. The latter hasn’t been up to date since August 2024.

“Elizabeth acknowledged that she had been interested by including sound proofing materials at the very least to [the victim’s] window to drown out her yelling for assist,” the criticism continued. “Elizabeth indicated she was completely satisfied this occurred in order that her mom could possibly be taken out of her life and he or she might proceed doing no matter she needed to do.”

Per Legislation&Crime, Drake truly wrote about her personal arrest on the web site — in a put up wherein she exclaimed, “For the primary time in 38 years, I’m now free! Freed from my captor.”