Under the Labow conservatorship and in the facility where Ms. Labow held Lee, her health quickly deteriorated.  She was soon suffering from severe constipation, edema (swelling of the ankles), gingivitis, dehydration, urinary tract infections for which Ms. Labow administered a cocktail mix of medications that Lee had not needed at home.

 

 

Casey and Marilyn received a phone message from Frumeh Labow.  "Your mother is in the hospital - nothing serious - just dehydration" she said.   Dehydration is in fact a serious and often fatal condition in the elderly. 

 

When Casey and Marilyn arrived at the hospital, Lee was lying flat on the bed, her skin was ashen in color and looked prickly.  A needle/drip in her hand was beeping and therefore, not working.  A nurse was summoned who made the necessary adjustments to make the drip work. 

 

Every day at home Lee drank freshly made fruit smoothies that helped to keep her regular and healthy.  Casey and Marilyn sat Lee up and encouraged her to drink the fruit smoothie they had brought.  After a few sips, Lee then drank quickly.  She was hungry as well as thirsty.  Within an hour Lee had regained color in her face and her skin had calmed.  Lee tried climbing out of the hospital bed and begged Casey and Marilyn to take her home.

 

At mealtime the nurses brought Lee's food and placed it in front of her.  Of course Lee did not know the food was there and therefore did not eat.   Lee suffered from Alzheimers disease and neurological blindness.  The nurses came later and took the food away.  Frumeh Labow had failed to tell the staff at the hospital that Lee was blind.  Was Ms. Labow attempting to starve Lee?

 

Marilyn phoned Frumeh Labow and asked if Lee could go home.  Labow said NO and returned Lee to the facility where she had developed dehydration.  It was an assisted living facility, not even a nursing home.

 

Under the Labow conservatorship, the attendants at the facility attempted to stop Casey and Marilyn from giving Lee fruit drinks when they visited.  Lee was often parched at the facility.

 

 

 

Casey Peters told Ms. Labow "If my mother dies under your conservatorship, I will sue you".  Labow replied "Others have tried and failed".  Labow uses the conservatee's money to pay high priced lawyers to defend her when family members complain about the civil and constitutional rights violations she commits against their loved ones.

 

 

Lee began complaining to Casey and Marilyn that her legs were painful and she asked for a doctor.  Lee's legs had turned purple and so Casey and Marilyn asked Ms. Labow to take Lee to the doctor.  Ms. Labow refused. 

 

Lee was fully vested in the Motion Picture and Television Medical Fund and so her medical care was FREE FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE.

 

Casey and Marilyn filed an ex-parte motion with the court for Lee's painful purple legs to be diagnosed and treated.  Ms. Labow resigned, falsely claiming that Casey and Marilyn Peters were "harassing" her.  The harassment in fact came from Ms. Labow and her target was Lee Peters.  Ms. Labow did not like Lee's loving family watching what she was doing.

 

 

Frumeh Labow took away Lee Peters support system when she evicted the vulnerable senior from her home of nearly 50 years and from the doting care of her loving son, Casey and daughter-in-law, Marilyn. 

 

Investigative attorney, Ms. Linda Paquette reported that Lee had received "an extraordiary level of in-home care" and that Lee craved a return of that care.  Ms. Paquette reported that Lee Peters was being abused in the facility where Ms. Labow had sent her and was holding her against her will.  Ms. Paquette further reported that Ms. Labow was violating many of the provisions in the court's Handbook for Conservators in regards to Lee Peters.

 

LEE PETERS DIED ON DECEMBER 28, 2006.  An autopsy conducted by the Los Angeles County Coroner revealed that Lee died from "pulmonary emboli, due to deep leg vein thrombosis".  Lee's painful leg condition for which Ms. Labow denied her free medical diagnosis and treatment was due to blood clots.  Lee's previously prescribed daily half aspirin to prevent clotting had been stopped by Ms. Labow when she institutionalized Lee Peters.  Blood clots from Lee's legs broke off and travelled to her lungs.  The report goes on to say that Lee struggled for 15 minutes to get her breath before she died.  A preventable death, the simple act of placing an aspirin under Lee's tongue could have dissolved the clots and allowed Lee to breath.  But Frumeh Labow had sent Lee Peters to a cheap assisted living facility, not a nursing home. The staff at the facility were not medically trained.