Our thanks to Jeff for this. An extract:

“The court was told the girl was severely malnourished, to the point she looked like a seven-month-old baby and not a three-year-old child, and had been fed with milky Weetabix through a syringe.

She also had a cleft palate and several other medical issues which her mother had not sought treatment for.

The offences covered a period from early 2020 to early 2023, when the girl was discovered after a visitor to the home heard a noise upstairs and found her on the bed.

A social worker was called to the house after the discovery, and described her “overwhelming horror” at what she saw on entering the bedroom.

The child was found with matted hair, deformities and rashes.”

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