Australia: woman who left mother to rot on kitchen floor walks free.

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'A woman who left her maggot-infested mother to rot on the kitchen floor has avoided jail after a judge said his conscience wouldn't allow him to lock her up.

Mary Pyrczak, 51, allowed her 72-year-old mother, Kateryna, to lie dying in her own faeces on the floor of her Melbourne home for a week in November 2008.

Parts of Mrs Pyrczak's body were gangrenous, her foot was infested with maggots, and her toes were blackened and mummified, the Victorian Supreme Court heard on Friday.

Pyrczak, who is an obsessive compulsive and with a longstanding phobia of medical professionals, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter.'