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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- One day after the news broke that Dennis Foust allegedly failed to help his 86-year-old mother who fell onto the floor of her home, his neighbors came to his aide and defended his character.

"I think he's gone beyond his ability to care for his mother, and I think the state should have been helping him," Martha Daulton, a Foust neighbor, said.

The arrest affidavit said Ms. Margareta Marie Foust refused to take her medications on Jan. 24, so her son Dennis called for an ambulance.

The medics reported finding Margareta covered in feces and lying underneath a heap consisting of soiled sheets.

Margareta said she had been laying on the ground for a week.

Dennis told the medical personnel his mother had refused to let him call 911 because she did not want to go back to Cheyenne Mountain Care Center.  He decided to call on the 24th because his mother was complaining of pain in her right leg.

Margareta was admitted to Memorial Hospital. Dennis did not join her, but he did call to check on her the next day.

According to the documents, Margareta requested hospital staff not provide any update to her son regarding her condition or even acknowledge she was still a patient.

Neighbors said there is no way Dennis would have let his mother lie on the floor in pain, let alone for five days.

"Dennis can't even bend over, he walks with a walker. He's in a bad condition, it's just not right to just dump everything onto him and say 'well you neglected your mother,'" Daulton said.

Dennis is facing a class five felony charge of Crimes Against At-Risk Adults.

His bond was set at $15,000, but he has since posted bond and is out of jail.