Cindy Taylor, convicted of manslaughter of her mother, declined parole

A woman who starved her elderly mother was denied parole at her first hearing.

Cindy Melissa Taylor, 47, is serving a sentence of just over 13 years and became eligible for parole for the first time.

Taylor was found guilty by a jury of failing to provide her mother, Ena Lai Dung, with the necessities of life, thereby causing her death.

The manure weighed only 29 kg and was found confined in a green plastic sheet on January 16, 2015.

The 76-year-old man had several bedsores, one of which had penetrated to the bone and another was gangrenous.

Dung had 14 fractures to his ribs and sternum, and the pathologist found that it would have been painful and interfered with his breathing.

He died of dehydration and malnutrition.

At trial, a paramedic who found Dung described her as a “scarecrow.”

In sentencing, Judge Edwin Wylie said it was difficult “to imagine death in worse or more degrading circumstances.”

In the Board of Parole report to the Herald, panel chair Mary More said Taylor was responsible for her mother’s care while her “co-offenders turned a blind eye.

Brian and Luana Taylor are not related to Cindy Taylor, but they shared the same house in Clendon Park.

Both were found guilty of failing to protect a vulnerable adult and incarcerated.

Luana Taylor was granted parole last year.

Cindy Taylor’s sentence is 12 years for manslaughter and 15 months for two counts of obtaining by deception.

The fraud was that when Dung’s brother died, the births, deaths, and marriages were not reported.

Taylor continued to get her retirement and she also used her Eftpos card.

More said Cindy Taylor was “consistently good” and focused on her work in the kitchen.

“The psychologist said that Ms. Taylor’s risk of recidivism is low and more likely to occur in a situation where she doesn’t know how to respond.”

Taylor, who had no proposal for release, told the board that he was not seeking parole.

“After rehab, Ms. Taylor wants to go to personal care and go to Liberation to work,” More said.

“The board sees merit in that proposal. Ms. Taylor has not had any rehab and as such her risk is undue and parole is denied.”

Taylor must appear before the Parole Board again in one year.