Couple accused of starving seven-year-old girl
A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested in Florida for allegedly locking her seven-year-old daughter in a room for four months and giving her so little food she looked like “a walking skeleton”.
The girl weighed just 25lbs (11.25kgs), less than half the normal weight for a child her age, when police found her this month, according to a police report.
Connie Warrington, 23, and David LaPointe, 36, were arrested on Friday on multiple counts of abuse, including food deprivation and medical neglect, police said.
“She looked like a walking skeleton,” spokesman Joe Durkin said.
The girl told police that LaPointe hated her and deprived her of food because she “was bad”. He punished her by biting her on the back, the police report said.
LaPointe and Warrington have two children of their own, a one-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, who are healthy and in state custody.
The couple are being held in custody.
The girl is now in the custody of her father Daniel Sims, who alerted police to her condition after he went to Warrington’s home this month with a court order to pick up the child.
