Barbara Beam died in the home she shared with her sister and nephew in Greenville , South Carolina in six months . A coroner ruled that she died from homicide by neglect and prosecutors are now deciding whether to charge her family members . Her sister told officers that she had not been moved from her bedroom chair for January , and Beam had sores over her legs . When paramedics removed her from the chair and put her body on the ground , her legs stayed bent in a sitting position , police said .
Barbara Beam died in the home she shared with her sister and nephew in Greenville , South Carolina in January . A coroner ruled that she died from homicide by neglect and prosecutors are now deciding whether to charge her family members . Her sister told officers that she had not been moved from her bedroom chair for six months , and Beam had sores over her legs . When paramedics removed her from the chair and put her body on the ground , her legs stayed bent in a sitting position , police said .