Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots

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A father who ignored his disabled daughter's screams on the night she died surrounded by flies and maggots has been sent to jail for gross negligence manslaughter.Schoolgirl Kaylea Titford, 16, died alone in her room after her dad texted her to 'stop it' when she screamed.The youngster had become morbidly obese and was found dead in her "severely soiled" bed after parents Alun Titford, 45, and Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 40, neglected her.

The pair allowed her health to deteriorate and her weight to soar as they left her alone in her adapted room, the Mirror reports.

Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop.Mr Justice Griffiths sentenced Titford to seven years and six months in prison, saying he "ignored the smell and the dirt and the flies and the chaos and the evidence of his own eyes and nose that she was not getting the care she needed."He said: "I find it impossible to say that one parent is more to blame than the other.

They were both equally responsible and they were both equally culpable."The judge said Kaylea could "see and smell her own filth" and what was happening was "obvious to anyone who went into the room."He added: "For a girl of her age and independent spirit this was a part terrible state to find herself in.