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The woman at the center of an elder abuse case involving two victims who were drugged in an attempt to place them in hospice well before their time said Friday she was never the seniors’ caregiver. “Rather, we built a family unit together,” Karin Franziska Boldt said in Jackson County Circuit Court, prior to her sentencing on a host of aggravated theft, assault and criminal mistreatment charges that drained life savings and resulted in health medical declines for the victims over the past year and a half. Boldt, who pleaded no contest to the charges in July, called 82-year-old Gary Bossingham “like a father figure to me for over 12 years,” and referred to a second victim in Boldt’s household — unrelated to either Bossingham or Boldt — as “Mama.” The statements were too much for Bryan Bossingham, who’s helped his father gain more than 60 pounds since a Rogue Regional Medical Center nurse kicked off the complex investigation with simple blood tests that yielded a suspicious cocktail of opiates and psych medications in the two seniors’ blood. He wheeled his father out of the courtroom midway through Boldt’s statement. Bryan Bossingham said in court Friday that his father was “days from death” under Boldt’s care until late February 2017. “To hear somebody say that they cared ... quite honestly it disgusts me,” Bryan Bossingham said. He described the hearing as the close of a “very long, seven-year process.” He told Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Tim Gerking that his father has “absolutely nothing left” financially, aside from numerous bank accounts in collections, cars repossessed and “massive credit card debt” after Boldt involved herself in his father’s finances. “He’s had judgments, he has nothing left.” She also hasn’t repaid him “a cent,” Bryan Bossingham said, which could cost her an extra two years in prison. Boldt reportedly complied with only one of two major restitution requirements outlined as terms of her plea agreement, according to statements Gerking made. The plea agreement details were sealed in court records. Gerking called Bossingham’s situation “deplorable” before conditionally sentencing Boldt to 10 years in prison Friday. Boldt’s sentence could be reduced to 8 years if she finds a way to pay Bossingham $10,000 within 90 days. Boldt complied with the requirement she transfer properties in her name back to a trust in the name of the elderly female victim after she added her name to the woman’s deed, then sold the property to pay for a manufactured home in Medford and another home in Klamath Falls. She did not, however, make the required payment to Bossingham that Deputy District Attorney Ben Lull described as a “significant portion” of the restitution amount. “He (Gary Bossingham) doesn’t have forever,” Lull said outside the courtroom. Boldt’s health indicates she, too, also may not have forever. She had entered the courtroom with the aid of a walker, and couldn’t stand during the hearing. Boldt said that following her arrest in February, she suffered a “nervous breakdown” at the jail that required hospitalization. While hospitalized, doctors found a blood clot in her lungs, and was administered a drug to which she described having a “severe reaction.” She was hospitalized while in jail for a period lasting about three months, she said in court. Bryan Bossingham, and his wife, Tasha Stover, said their next goal is to draw national attention to issues they see in senior care that allowed Boldt to take advantage of his father for more than a decade. Those issues include closer scrutiny at hospitals when someone presents themselves as immediate family — and a change in the law that would require deaths in hospice to have a medical examination. Since sharing his story in early August, Gary Bossingham has transferred to a “nicer facility” that Bryan Bossingham said “was gracious enough to accept him.” Bryan and Tasha have also launched a GoFundMe page seeking to make his father a little more “whole.” They said Gary Bossingham now lives on $160 a month. “He wants to do some traveling ... he wants to do things with the only family he’s got left,” Bryan Bossingham said. Reach reporter Nick Morgan at 541-776-4471 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @MTCrimeBeat.