Girl, two, survives three-week home alone ordeal [View All]

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Associated Press in Jacksonville
Saturday November 13, 2004
The Guardian

It is not the most nutritious diet for a toddler: dried pasta, ketchup and jelly - all washed down with water from the lavatory.

But for one two-year-old girl, it was a combination that kept her alive for almost three weeks after her jailed mother left her alone in a flat in Florida.

Dakeysha Lee, 23, was sentenced to 18 months' probation yesterday after pleading no contest in connection with the episode in September 2003 in which she served time for assault and theft without making provisions for her daughter, Breanna.

The abandoned girl passed the time at home alone watching television, raiding the pantry and refrigerator. Police said she may have drunk water from the lavatory to survive.
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