Jump to full article: AP, 2009-10-16
Intro: A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with neglecting his disabled mother who weighed just 70 pounds when she died of burns caused when her cigarette caught her oxygen supply on fire.
Police say 53-year-old Rosemary McCurdy died Dec. 26 after suffering facial burns from a "flash fire." The woman had multiple sclerosis and had been bedridden for five years when she was burned Dec. 21.
Police say 22-year-old Victor McCurdy didn't take her to the hospital until five days after she was burned.
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