Elderly Mother Dead After Fall Adult Daughter Charged in Sayre Pennsylvania

Was it Accidental or Premeditated?

In a frantic 911 call from the home of Josephine Parkhurst Boice, living in Sayre Pennsylvania, her elderly mother Rose Parkhurst is heard clearly in the background saying Josey pushed me. Rose later died at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre Pennsylvania due to injuries which occurred directly from the fall which occurred on August 22, 2007.

Rose Parkhurst, a 71-year-old grandmother died in August 22, 2007 but Wednesday March 26, 2008 her 35-year-old daughter Josephine Parkhurst Boice is charged with in connection with her mother's death.

The verdict handed down was guilty of simple assault and aggravated assault, but not guilty on the charges of involuntary manslaughter in the case of Josephine Parkhurst Boice of Sayre Pennsylvania.

According to the Morning Times of Sayre Pennsylvania, the charge of aggravated assault, which is a first-degree felony, carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in a state prison. The simple assault and involuntary manslaughter charges, misdemeanors of the second and first degrees, carry maximum sentences of two and five years.

In the small town of Sayre, Pennsylvania a single mom Josephine Parkhurst Boice, lived with her children, also living in the home was the single mom's own elderly mother Rose Parkhurst who was not in good health.

Rose Parkhurst was a tiny woman of only five feet and weighted sixty-five pounds. She was in very poor health on that fateful night suffering from a host of illnesses including persistent emphysema, severe scoliosis, and osteoporosis, She was a frail woman who used a walker and carried an oxygen tank to aide her breathing.

Josephine Parkhurst Boice was having a heated discussion with her 10-year-old daughter on the evening because the daughter who was outside was not supposed to be out of the Sayre Pennsylvania house as she was grounded. As that discussion became more heated Rose appeared to see what the commotion involving her daughter and beloved granddaughter was about this time.