Philly - The City of (no) Motherly Love?
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 8:41 am
Starved, disabled girl was failed at every turnhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_ ... th_charges
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.
Unbelievable story. I can't even begin to understand any of it. Death happened in 2006, but new evidence has surfaced.