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A malnourished, abondened and neglected seven-year-old was rescued from her personal hell a few days ago
Why personal hell, you ask? She was found locked in a dark and messy vacant flat with no basic necessities like food and water.
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The state that she was found in was absolutely heartbreaking, it drove the policewoman who found her to despair
She had been starved and was so frail and extremely underweight. She also had bruises on her body.
According to a chart (see below) by [Disabled World](http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/height-weight-teens.shtml), last updated on August 2014, the average weight for a 7-year-old female should be at 49.5lbs (approximately 22kg). This puts the little girl at **15kg under the average weight**!
The extent of her starvation was so bad that she was unable to eat solid food and had to be put on a soft diet
"She needs a lot of love and care, and she also needs to be pampered," said the police chief
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The stepmother, the source of the girl's misery, reasoned her vicious act by saying that she believes the girl is "possessed by evil spirits"
She did not want to feed the girl because she believed that by feeding the girl, she is nourishing the evil spirit that is within the little girl
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The seven-year-old girl would never have been found if it were not for her father's own greed
The girl is believed to be the only child from her father's first marriage. He is now remarried, with five other children
What is more shocking is that the father and his new family merely lived across the flat they locked her in
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