10 yr old girl locked in closet ...

[littlewolf]

http://news.yahoo.com/police-rescue-malnourished-girl-closet-kansas-city-161117342--abc-news-topstories.html


A Kansas City, Mo., mother is behind bars, accused of keeping her 10-year-old daughter locked in a closet, not letting her come out to eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom.
The girl weighed just 32 pounds, and hospital records indicated that she has only gained 6 pounds since she was 4 or 5 years old, according to a police probable cause statement. The girl also suffers from "multiple healing skin injuries and failure to thrive," the statement said.

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"She weighed a little over a third of what a 10-year-old should weigh," Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young said. "We don't know how long or how frequently she's been in there [the closet], but it's clear she'd spent a significant amount of time in there."
Kansas City police met Missouri Children's Division workers outside the apartment building Friday morning after the division received a hotline call about a girl who was locked up and unable to eat or use the restroom.
When a division worker told two women outside the apartment that three children lived in the apartment, the neighbors said they had never seen the third child even though they'd lived there for "several years."

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Officers learned the mother, Jacole Prince, 29, was out with her two younger children, but maintenance let law enforcement inside, according to the probable cause statement.
The second floor smelled strongly of urine, and when officers noticed a crib pushed against a closet door that was tied off with rope, they asked, "Is anyone in here?"
A child's voice answered, "Yes."

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this is just evil ..... I hope the mom likes jail .... her cell will be bigger then
the closet ....

[ejpoeta]

1. why would someone do this? i mean if she had three kids

why did she single out this one? just..... pisses me off when i hear this stuff.

[blm]

2. My mother struggled with undiagnosed mental issues and had 12 kids targeting 4 with physical abuse

when she became angered. Who knows how they decide who will be their target? My guess is that it would be the one whose face or demeanor reflects the parent's own anger for themselves.