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This is distressing. And nauseating. And... Well, just plain horrific...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24090555-421,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24090555-421,00.html
andA 12-YEAR-old girl was left without food or water to die in the backyard of her foster home, delirious with pain and unable to move, a court has heard.
andCrown Prosecutor Richard Coates said doctors at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) uncovered a "massive 1.5 litres of pus" in the child's leg, caused by a fracture to her left thigh.
Sisters Toni Melville, 43, and Denise Reynolds, 42, have been charged with the manslaughter of the girl, who first started to limp following a school sports day.
Three weeks later, on July 12 last year, she died from a blood and bone infection.
andMr Coates said Ms Reynolds was a "stubborn" woman who insisted the child had sustained a sports injury which would improve with exercise. When the girl refused, Ms Reynolds would "smack her leg with a stick".
"When assistance was not forthcoming to help her to the toilet she would urinate and defecate in her clothes where she lay."