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Duncan Murray

Woman left chronically ill parents in near squalor

Renee Prendergast has been cleared of defrauding her parents but guilty of another charge. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A Sydney woman left her elderly parents who suffered a range of chronic health conditions without food or medical care when she went away for a long weekend, a court has been told.

Renee Prendergast was cleared of charges that she financially defrauded her parents, but found guilty on Friday, following a judge-alone trial, on one count of failing to provide her mother with the necessities of life.

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