A West Valley woman was charged Tuesday after prosecutors say she abandoned her duties as a caretaker of a 90-year-old woman she lived with.

The woman, 35, was charged with one count of aggravated abuse or neglect of a disabled or elder adult, a second-degree felony.

Police responded to Pioneer Valley Hospital on June 8 for an aggravated elder-abuse case, according to charging documents. Detectives spoke with hospital staffers who said one of their 90-year-old patients had recently lost a considerable amount of weight, was suffering from renal failure, pneumonia and had multiple bedsores.

One of the woman's bedsores was a stage-four bedsore that staff estimated would take weeks to months to develop, the charges said.

The woman was in the hospital from June 6 until June 14, when she died.

Detectives determined that the 35-year-old woman living with the elderly woman had been her caretaker for three years.

— Ethan Thomas