A Lynwood woman who failed to help an elderly woman at a Kirkland adult home eat, change her diapers or bring her to the emergency room for infected ulcers, was charged Wednesday with first-degree criminal mistreatment.

A Kirkland woman who owned the adult home was also charged with failure to report.

Effie J. Tutor, 38, was the manager for six years of the Houghton Lakeview Adult Family Home that housed up to six elderly adults. In April 2008, police and the Department of Social and Health Services were notified of a sick 87-year-old woman, Jean Rudolph, who suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease and was wheelchair bound.

Rudolph’s relatives had taken her to a doctor after they noticed how thin she looked. Investigators found the woman was emaciated and had seven infected pressure ulcers on her hips, shoulder, knees and tailbone, according to King County Court charging papers.

Rudolph died June 19, 2008 of bronchopneumonia and bone infection caused by the ulcers, an autopsy determined. She weighed 68 pounds.

Tutor’s estranged husband, Robert Dutton, told detectives that Tutor spent much of her time during work on the internet carrying on an affair with a man from Morocco. Dutton claimed Tutor ignored her duties.

On May 18, 2008, he said Tutor called him in a panic over Rudolph’s bedsores. When he went to the home to help his wife, he said Rudolph’s clothes looked like they hadn’t been changed in two days, court papers said. In addition, Dutton reported Rudolph’s diaper was caked with feces, her sores were inflamed and infected and Rudolph was screaming in pain.

Dutton said Tutor refused to call a hospital because she was afraid she’d get in trouble.

He also claimed his wife had stolen prescription drugs from the home and sold them to her co-workers.

Rudolph’s son said he wasn’t informed of his mother’s pressure sores until May 26, according to charging papers. He told investigators he was concerned about his mother’s diapers smelling bad and her hair seeming dirty.

The adult home owner, Patti Goodwill, was also charged with failure to report, a gross misdemeanor. Goodwill told investigators that she had seen Rudolph’s sores twice but did not try to take her to the hospital, papers said.

DSHS shut down the adult home. Both defendants will be arraigned Sept. 16 at the King County Courthouse.