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06-24-2012, 07:47 AM
A Kansas City mother was arrested Saturday after her 10-year-old daughter, who weighed only 32 pounds, was found locked in a closet, Fox 4 reports.
The child was found Friday morning after authorities received a call to a child abuse hotline. When officers arrived, two women told them the mother had left about 20 minutes earlier with two girls, whom they described as "clean and well fed," a Kansas City officer said in the probable cause statement received by The Associated Press.
A social services worker said there should be three children at the home. However, the women insisted, "No, we have lived here for several years, and she only has two daughters that stay here, and we have never seen the other girl, but we heard she stays with the father or an aunt," the probable cause statement said.
When officers entered the home, they found the severely malnourished child locked in a closet that reeked of feces and urine. She reportedly told officers she had not been allowed to accompany her family to breakfast because "she messes herself."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/23/32-pound-10-year-old-found-locked-in-missouri-closet/#ixzz1yiM7Q21J
The child was found Friday morning after authorities received a call to a child abuse hotline. When officers arrived, two women told them the mother had left about 20 minutes earlier with two girls, whom they described as "clean and well fed," a Kansas City officer said in the probable cause statement received by The Associated Press.
A social services worker said there should be three children at the home. However, the women insisted, "No, we have lived here for several years, and she only has two daughters that stay here, and we have never seen the other girl, but we heard she stays with the father or an aunt," the probable cause statement said.
When officers entered the home, they found the severely malnourished child locked in a closet that reeked of feces and urine. She reportedly told officers she had not been allowed to accompany her family to breakfast because "she messes herself."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/23/32-pound-10-year-old-found-locked-in-missouri-closet/#ixzz1yiM7Q21J