[blwall1416]

Starved, disabled girl was failed at every turn

PHILADELPHIA - For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room — made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave — the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water.

Unable to help herself because of her cerebral palsy, she wasted away from malnutrition and maggot-infested bedsores that ate her flesh. She died alone on a putrid mattress in her mother's home, the floor covered in feces. She was 14 but weighed just 42 pounds.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_ ... th_charges

Unbelievable story. I can't even begin to understand any of it. Death happened in 2006, but new evidence has surfaced.

[ATrain]

Wow...it amazes me how horrible humans can be towards to each other sometimes.