The first inkling that her son was in serious trouble came from the Peru police scanner at 7:13 a.m. Sunday, August 30, about two days after he’d told her he was having difficulty breathing. The Pipe Creek Township Volunteer Fire Department reported a “44 year old male unconscious/not breathing” transported from the Miami Correctional Facility. “I thought well, my son’s 44,” Gardner said. She waited until Monday to call Miami Correctional Facility. A nurse told her that

The photos show the kind of nightmarish wound typically reported in the worst of nursing homes. A complaint filed in Allen Superior Court in January states that the bedsore photographed went untended at a local hospital, causing unbearable pain and had a hand in the victim’s death.