Kalama couple suffers theft, abuse & neglect in elder abuse case

Editor's note: All information in this story is based on court documents and interviews with Albert Sigea, his friends and family members, attorneys, guardians and local authorities.Albert Sigea was hungry.There was nothing to eat in his immense kitchen, where clouds of fruit flies hovered above the dirty dishes and rotting food spilled across the broad counter tops. Sigea, a World War II veteran, and his wife, Lila, both 82, would be having candy for lunch, as they had for breakfast.Huddled in her wheelchair, Lila Sigea (pronounced "Siggy"), a slim feather of a woman with advanced Alzheimer's, needed to be bathed and changed. That would have to wait -- Al Sigea, a slender man with a touch of dementia, couldn't handle all his wife's needs himself. .

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